Example sentences of "they [verb] through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't we could , as I suggest it would be slightly vague and , and the fact that the , the report shows the collection date , we could say the date it 's going to be collected cos you 'd get them to go through all |
| 2 | Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here |
| 3 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 4 | Finally , in moments of vision the internal mind ‘ goes out into the external Mind ; they communicate through new kinds of sense experience — this is what the ‘ sublime ’ passages in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude are about . |
| 5 | So they lived through another day — together in the same house , but more separately than ever before . |
| 6 | They rode through another crowded court and came to the inner court lined only by chiefs . |
| 7 | Along the way they passed through one or two collections of houses masquerading as villages . |
| 8 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 9 | The journey was so organized that on their way they passed through several German states , clearly hoping to find indications of pro-French feeling on the part of the South German sovereigns , who , it was thought , would be alarmed by the seemingly inexorable rise of Prussia . |
| 10 | They passed through several more doors . |
| 11 | They passed through another set of doors and out into the open air . |
| 12 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 13 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 14 | The ganglion cells are the neurons which communicate with the brain by propagating impulses up their axons , while their dendrites detect patterns of excitation in the photoreceptors , to which they connect through intermediate cells . |
| 15 | They were considered so remarkable that many people , biologists among them , were unable to believe that they arose through natural selection . |
| 16 | A report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates forecasts that the geographical location of power stations , and not the international threat that they pose through global warming and acid rain , will determine the development of the power industry through the 1990s and beyond . |
| 17 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 18 | As they drove through rolling hills topped by Mohican clumps of trees and moved into the leafy green tunnels of Petersfield , his bride , who 'd been primed by Drew , put her hand on her husband 's cock and suggested that it would be more fun to stop and have their picnic in a field than join the crowds at Cowdray . |
| 19 | Since it was the start of the monsoon they drove through torrential downpours which the elephants , if not the drivers , thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 20 | Driven on by wind and tide they raced through this passage and into a wide lake . |
| 21 | Railway embankments are a favourite because there 's little to disturb them as they forage through adjoining gardens for food . |
| 22 | We are also interested in the Central Wales Line , the Shrewsbury and Hereford Line and the Cambrian , particularly where they run through this area . |
| 23 | Informal structures are not designed , they happen through human interactions . |
| 24 | They walked through sad places where small coloured children sat on doorsteps , too depressed and apathetic to play games , and stared after them with huge black eyes in which the tropic sun was extinguished . |
| 25 | But they rushed through another resolution surrendering control of the 60,000-strong Workers ' Guard to the government . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're certain the UFF identifies a car used by the target , then they drive through nationalist areas in the city late at night looking for the car . |
| 27 | Testing may involve an examination of individual items as they pass through each procedure in the system or the selection of different items for each procedure tested . |
| 28 | The lack of any hard eclipse at high frequencies suggests that the eclipse is due to scattering or absorption of the radio waves as they pass through ionized matter surrounding the companion star . |
| 29 | Cars will be fitted with equipment which will register them when they pass through electronic gates . |
| 30 | Did you want , did they go through all of them , did they get all of them ? |