Example sentences of "and through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio . |
| 2 | I went back to the Knitmaster with a 302 , then a 321 and through the gamut until I had one of the first Electronic 500 models ; still with that , I bought a push button Brother for the lace , then the 840 , and 910 and finally the 950i — now I have that and the Passap Duomatic 80 . |
| 3 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 4 | Across the river and through the streets of Cliffe men fought in close combat before the royalists scattered . |
| 5 | Although this was the grandest , Bering 's voyage of discovery was only one of many scientific expeditions in the eighteenth century , and through the efforts of government-sponsored explorers and private entrepreneurs — the latter seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter — Russia 's political and commercial power began to reach out beyond the Siberian landmass across the northern Pacific , taking in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands , Russian America ( the present Alaska ) , as well as establishing trading settlements down the western coast of America , and even making a short-lived foray into the Hawaiian archipelago . |
| 6 | Two new forms of poverty arise from the bifurcated wage and occupational structure of the producer services sector ( businesses dealing in information ) and through the development of a semi-skilled or deskilled labour force in personal services such as restaurants , hotels and domestic service . |
| 7 | Yet despite the impressive cycle/pedestrian routes marked within and through the development sites , the Local Plan shows no overall strategy , ie network , of routes . |
| 8 | The choice of Montini as pope was an enormous encouragement to those working for change in and through the Council . |
| 9 | Her colour had got still more livid and threatening , and through the fat , purple cheeks her eyes were bulging and blazing . |
| 10 | When I walk out of the house and through the square on my way to a final peaceful meditation at my favourite bay view in trigo cebada , the young man from last night comes out of a doorway with a large cassette in his arms . |
| 11 | Men sat outside the cafés discussing business , chatting or playing briscola , a card game , as they sipped glasses of lambrusco , while we young girls walked up and down the main street and through the square on what was called the passeggiata , the promenade , hoping that we attracted the eyes of the boys who gathered in little groups . |
| 12 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |
| 13 | She ran into the fog and through the fog , its thickness a blessing now , although she was risking a fall and broken bones . |
| 14 | After island-hopping across Australia , over the Indian Ocean , up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal to Port Said , they entered the Mediterranean . |
| 15 | The moderate Home Secretary was not alone in contending that offenders should recompense their victims , and through the performance of tasks of value to the community make reparation for the harm they had done . |
| 16 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 17 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 18 | She neither gave him an answer nor waited for more reaction , but turned swiftly up the stairs and through the kitchen and along the corridor where , without knocking , she burst into Jessie 's room . |
| 19 | The circlet of gold and jewels is a potent symbol of the Vallens dynasty which is re-established through diplomacy and through the wishes of the nation : the acclaiming of the ‘ lost prince ’ by mountain families , hereditary guardians of the Crown , is strongly reminiscent of the recognition of Marco in Frances Hodgson Burnett 's story . |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | They dropped the log and scrambled away from the stream and through the hedge , running over the field , then stopping half-way and looking back . |
| 22 | At the weekend we had Peter Brook 's approach via the South Bank Show ( LWT ) and through the foothills of Lear and the Marat/Sade to this Everest of an Indian epic . |
| 23 | The week at Caroline 's went all too quickly and we then took the Picton Ferry , across Cook Strait and through the Marlborough Sounds , a journey of about 3 1/2 hours . |
| 24 | And the bookshop had made the connections : Marovitz and the Cochrane theatre people ; Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , with plenty of contacts in Scotland , in Europe ; Burroughs and Ginsberg and Corso and Ferlinghetti ; Simon Vinkenoog in Amsterdam ; and through the art gallery Indica had access to the British avant-garde . |
| 25 | There are many elements which establish a broad and strong line of continuity from the Miller 's Tale into and through the Reeve 's Tale . |
| 26 | For him the critical characteristic of the extended professional is : ‘ a capacity for autonomous professional self-development through systematic self-study , through the study of the work of other teachers and through the testing of ideas by classroom research procedures ’ . |
| 27 | Past Chiswick and Heathrow Airport , under the M25 and through the villages of Wentworth and Sunningdale , out towards Woking . |
| 28 | He would never understand how his mother had managed to manoeuvre so many bulky items up the stepladder and through the hatch . |
| 29 | The law recognizes , through various defence doctrines and through the instruction to prosecutorial authorities to refrain from prosecution in certain cases where formally a person is guilty , that disobedience to law is sometimes justified . |
| 30 | He absorbed European culture through nineteenth-century French novels , and through the literature of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain , the Spanish cultural Golden Age . |