Example sentences of "to [verb] through the " in BNC.

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1 Its route took it to Constantinople prior to passing through the southern part of the sprawling Ottoman empire to the Persian Gulf there to revert to a submarine route again before continuing to Karachi .
2 Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable .
3 These range from telephone calls between acquaintances and friends to meetings at training/familiarisation courses , and from participation in the affairs of independent computing associations to communicating through the columns of their own specialist fortnightly journal ( the Freelance Informer ) .
4 This novel way of selling means participating companies can offer vendors another option to selling through the fat cattle ring or deadweight direct to the abattoir .
5 Though he 's more used to peering through the undergrowth , he never misses Chelsea .
6 It was a great pleasure to meet the team of authors and please thank Susan Parks for giving up so much of her time to devote to going through the manuscripts .
7 But the study shows that those dedicated to breaking through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ on their careers are prepared to sacrifice having a family ; the nine women tested had only five children between them ; the six men had 10 .
8 Now she and her colleagues , Fiona Burrell and cookery writer Prue Leith , have assembled a guide to getting through the festive season , entitled Leith 's Complete Christmas ( Bloomsbury , £14.99 ) .
9 The neighbouring county of Gwynedd has as its establishment of higher education , Bangor Normal College ; a largely monotechnic institution under the North Wales Counties Joint Education Committee offering teacher-training courses , it is giving increasing emphasis to teaching through the medium of Welsh .
10 The largest pair of Stillsons may shift the nuts , but you may have to resort to cutting through the pipes .
11 Pointer needed no further encouragement and I was too intrigued to object to floundering through the frozen bracken .
12 Repairing the damaged cable took workmen about two hours , and trains had to escorted through the area until the system was running properly .
13 ‘ I got to glancing through the ledgers , and before I knew it , the time had flown . ’
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