Example sentences of "it through [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears .
2 Now he sat and stared out at the Brandenburg Gate , lit by the bloody glow of a German sunset and saw it through a mist of tears .
3 A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall .
4 ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket .
5 stick it through a dye .
6 Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers .
7 The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female .
8 I pushed it through a window , he 'd told her .
9 Had they got it through a Council then ?
10 From Britain — you 'd probably smuggle it to France , put it through a maze , you know , take it south , country roads ; that 's half a day with two drivers .
11 Whereas if he raised it through a levy on Copts that would be wildly popular with everyone else .
12 It is significant in this respect that Galileo 's drawing of the moon 's surface as he saw it through a telescope contains some craters that do not in fact exist there .
13 First , you sterilise the water with one of the purification tablets supplied , then filter it through a carbon filter to produce drinkable water for tea , coffee , cold drinks or just for cleaning your teeth .
14 You get your lump of metal and you stretch it you sort of pull it through a die , through a tiny hole and you just st stretch it .
15 The more viscous the lava , the more difficult it is to force it through a vent , and the vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava .
16 Stephen Dutton , 21 , tied a rope to a door handle and threaded it through a pulley into an adjoining kitchen before looping it around his neck .
17 Probably put it through a car-wash .
18 Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it .
19 It 's a technique of scanning an image and enlarging it through a battery of airbrushes controlled by a computer .
20 The doctrine of political neutrality seeks to implement it through a policy of neutrality .
21 Yet chemists are working on just such a project and one group in Japan has managed to selectively filter copper , using light to drive it through a filtering membrane .
22 The Sergeant , suspecting that the enemy infantry was hiding in the mist-skeined wheat field , turned his horse of the lane , forced it through a ditch and so up into the wheat .
23 She sipped it through a straw looking around with interest .
24 And he did it through a method that was little less than divinely inspired .
25 He sees it through a glass , sentimentally , romantically ; it is either too pretty or too brutal ; it lacks ordinariness .
26 He put his arm out and put it through a glass panel .
27 He put his arm out and put it through a glass panel .
28 Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing .
29 It does n't hold land in order to allow ideologues to impose their views on our tenants and impose it through a form of nineteenth century landlordism .
30 " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before .
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