Example sentences of "and [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing about having a job , she thought , sitting down at her desk and leafing through the messages which had been left for her , it certainly takes your mind off your worries . |
| 2 | Plenty of wallop : two machine-guns mounted on the engine and firing through the prop . |
| 3 | Passengers like the informal atmosphere , the excellent visibility and the rapid loading and unloading through the aircraft 's five doors . |
| 4 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 5 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 6 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 7 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 8 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 9 | Before my friends could do anything , Rupert of Hentzau was on his horse and galloping through the trees . |
| 10 | Give him a pen , a pint and a puzzle and he 's happy LUNCH for Bill Pilkington usually comprises a pint and The Times crossword lingering over one and whizzing through the other . |
| 11 | He came back without warning , overriding his own harbingers and flashing through the opening gates and straight to the hall , heralded only by the flag streaming above him . |
| 12 | Linking the Pro GAP back up and checking through the rest of the sounds the Utopia had to offer , one thing became obvious : that the Intellifex is the real key to a lot of great sounds . |
| 13 | Coming out of the libraries and walking through the courtyard towards the gate at the other end , you will see on your left the façade of the Church of St Mary . |
| 14 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 15 | This effectively prevents water-loss by evaporation through the skin , though the animal must doubtless lose some moisture by breathing , which it is able to do through tiny tubes attached to its nostrils and opening through the membrane . |
| 16 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 17 | He was a little hesitant at first but soon had told her everything ; how he met the Bookman , his funny habits , his endless knowledge , their pranks , sitting in the sun on reclining chairs and leaping through the shelves . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember getting in the car and driving through the village back to the main road … but … nothing else . ’ |
| 19 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 20 | I teetered , caught control again , and made it down that last forward rush , sliding and bouncing through the lunatic water . |
| 21 | Pressure was put on residents to make increasing use of a discretionary power to pay board and lodging through the supplementary benefit supplied by the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 22 | Individuals , through love , become real social beings , each identifying with and loving through the other . |
| 23 | I desperately wanted to be out there with the sheep , hiding behind boulders and sprinting through the heather . |
| 24 | Second , as regards funding , a letter of 8 June from Christopher Badenoch , Area Manager of SNH , confirms that they ’ are minded to approve the project , subject to … the written approval and consent of British Waterways ’ , and operating through the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust ( who had , as I think I mentioned , promised us £3,000 subject to SNH approval ) . |
| 25 | I could n't resist knocking on the window , waving and grinning through the glass . |
| 26 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 27 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
| 28 | The song is usually sung when the fans are possessed with passion and wandering through the streets of some unsuspecting city on the way to a match . |
| 29 | Many happy hours were spent walking in the woods , chasing elusive rabbits and splashing through the muddiest water . |
| 30 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |