Example sentences of "by [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BURGLARS smashed their way into a family home by driving through the patio windows . |
| 2 | The house , she admitted grudgingly , could be found by driving through the village and taking a narrow turning to the left . |
| 3 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 4 | The old sides can be removed by slicing through the silicone sealer with a razor or scalpel . |
| 5 | AFTER SEVERAL more drinks we decided to test the theory by walking through the aforesaid precinct . |
| 6 | They circumvent waterfalls by wriggling through the sodden vegetation on the banks . |
| 7 | Or you may see exactly what you would see by looking through the glass at any point . |
| 8 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
| 9 | So we make an indirect observation by looking through the window for signs of freezing , such as frost . |
| 10 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 11 | We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes . |
| 12 | This is not the keeping of the letter by escaping through the loopholes which we have opened up through clever casuistry . |
| 13 | From the road , No. 6 Commando positions could be approached by passing through the farm . |
| 14 | The clear eggs can be found by searching through the mop , strand by strand and removing them by hand . |
| 15 | The spatial association is checked by searching through the hierarchical spaces for an intersection between the geometric domains of the parts . |
| 16 | Hanging accessories , known as ‘ D ’ rings , are best fixed to the hardboard with rivets , which are secured by pushing through the ring and then through a hole made in the hardboard , before being split open with a hammer . |
| 17 | The only way to view the Chancellor was by scrambling through the neighbouring graveyard and looking at the house across a row of tombstones . |
| 18 | If your band 's sound is less strongly defined , then you may need some help to dream up a style and image Libraries are a good source of inspiration , and by browsing through the books and magazines on fashion you may get some ideas . |
| 19 | As with the best coffee-table books , much can be gained simply by browsing through the photographs and their informative captions . |
| 20 | When , in a similar situation in 1947 , the House of Lords threatened to block the steel nationalisation programme of the Labour administration , to the maximum extent permitted by the 1911 Act , that government responded by curbing its powers still further , by forcing through the Parliament Act 1949 . |
| 21 | This may be done by thumbing through the pages of the local telephone directory , then calling in to watch the training at the club selected . |
| 22 | Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths . |
| 23 | By going through the inspection again he would at once notice his mistake . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 25 | She debated whether to reach the wherry by going through the Cathedral grounds and over the footbridge — the prettier way — or whether to use over the traffic bridge in front of the market square . |
| 26 | The outer circumference and walls will be more exhibition like , but can only be found by going through the tunnels opening into that segment . |
| 27 | In stronger winds , by moving through the water quickly we create more wind . |
| 28 | The hover-fly only betrays its true identity , to the casual glance , by moving through the air in the jerky fashion that is characteristic of its family . |
| 29 | It is a profound challenge to those who have built their careers by rising through the ranks of the command organisation . ’ |
| 30 | This is done by blowing through the egg leaving just the shell . |