Example sentences of "through the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip ran down through the field so he could n't hear the noise any more . |
| 2 | After a while , Niki worked his way up through the field until only Tambay and Prost were ahead of him ; then Prost had to abandon the race with a loose wheel , a stupid mechanical mistake , which put Niki on Tambay 's tail . |
| 3 | Page one o nine the second paragraph then we 've taken out erm first from first priority , so it should read in agreement with Harlow to place a notice through the scheme as it 's priority with the housing fund in the future years as required . |
| 4 | THE PIPES BLEW OUT and an enormous haggis was paraded through the hall as Neil MacCormick , Home Affairs spokesman of the Scottish National Party , rose to his feet to toast ‘ the Immortal Memory of Rabbie Burns ’ . |
| 5 | The shots echoed through the hall as he replaced his weapon . |
| 6 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 7 | A rider , still out of sight around a bend , came toward her , crashing heavily through the regrowth As soon as he came to the turn , where the path was open to the sky , she saw it was the Master , Lord Watson Wyatt himself . |
| 8 | I replaced the fuel tank which was a poor state and pumped clean petrol through the engine until it was clear . |
| 9 | When using this fin elastic , thread it up through the feeder as usual , but do not take it through the tape-up spring ( the antennae at the end of the tension wire ) . |
| 10 | He picked up his journal and leafed through the parchments until he found a certain sheet , then read it through in silence . |
| 11 | This also provides more power through the turn because the rig will be more upright . |
| 12 | Leslie lost two pints of blood after being stabbed through the heart while trying to arrest a suspected burglar . |
| 13 | IT all started with dad-of-three John Gallagher , a 29-year-old Catholic shot through the heart as he ran for cover in Armagh on August 14 , 1969 . |
| 14 | WAITER Timothy Harris stabbed his teenage girlfriend through the heart when she refused to sleep with him , a jury was told . |
| 15 | She lay awake until he came up but he passed their door without stopping and she heard his door close and the jangle of springs through the wall as he sat on the bed to take his boots off . |
| 16 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 17 | They had been piled high on his desk until the day it fell through the floor because of all the weight . |
| 18 | I nearly fell through the floor because I did n't know what owning such a lot of money was like before . |
| 19 | I remember during the Republican National Convention in Dallas in 1984 walking through the floor as the renomination of President Reagan was being acclaimed . |
| 20 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 21 | Some people who have become severely deafened do not wear rubber soles on their shoes because they can only feel the vibration through the floor when wearing leather soles . |
| 22 | Ratner 's resignation is likely to send the shares through the floor when the market opens today . |
| 23 | This final rotary , simply put , is an attenuator for the signal , governing how much level passes through the unit when the gate is shut . |
| 24 | for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then |
| 25 | The frisson that he caused was still sweeping through the gallery when it paused and then redoubled . |
| 26 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 27 | She skipped through the gardens until she found Ben Weatherstaff , who was digging and talking to his robin . |
| 28 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 29 | using almost three thousand hours of work on a major computer , the result is a stunning walk through the abbey as it would have appeared in the eleventh century . |
| 30 | The black cloud was right above them now and some of the congregation had begun to stir uneasily in expectation of the downpour , wondering whether the Padre would manage to get through the service before it fell . |