Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 2 | We mounted and rode back through the lazy summer sunshine , the Scottish troopers massing behind whilst Vauban pushed forward between us . |
| 3 | Habermas describes this as domination ‘ from above ’ because the cultural tradition that legitimizes power is generated and passed down through those who exercise it . |
| 4 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 5 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 6 | Then she opened the bedroom door and crept down through the dark , silent house . |
| 7 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 8 | The water , flooding over the pastures in winter and oozing up through the summer marshes , held the key to these balanced systems . |
| 9 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 10 | They were stopped at a sentry post to have passes checked and moved on through the wool of the fog , traffic sounds muted , an anguished cry from the Thames as a ship sounded its foghorn on the way down to the sea . |
| 11 | Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field . |
| 12 | I gave myself a pat on the back though and carried on through Cross Rift into Selenite Passage where the rock sparkles with the glassy selenite running through the walls . |
| 13 | When there were no sounds of activity she heaved a great sigh of relief and carried on through the living-room towards the front door . |
| 14 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 15 | She led her horse to the very edge of the woodland , and peered out through the scrub at the rise of land before her . |
| 16 | He got up and padded into the living room and peered out through a chink in the blackout curtains . |
| 17 | They walked briskly over to the two cars and Plumpton bent down and peered in through the windows of the Mini . |
| 18 | Bodie nodded towards the door of Flat 30 and Doyle stepped across to it , dropped to a crouch and peered in through the letterbox . |
| 19 | At last , under the cover of a black moonless night , Grandfather Denknetzeyan stole over to the house and peered in through the kitchen window . |
| 20 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 21 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 22 | It was a calm , windless and hazy morning as we left Clapham and headed up through two dark tunnels along the old Drove Road of Thwaite Lane , a continuation of the medieval monastic highway that crossed the Dales , linking the lands of Fountains Abbey . |
| 23 | Andy gives a small smile , takes the empty glass from her and heads back through the crowds to the kitchen . |
| 24 | The shallow burial phase was dominated by pore waters that were derived from surface environments and percolated down through the buried sediments ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 25 | ’ Both of them recovered , and staggered on through the year . |
| 26 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
| 27 | Anderson chuckled goodbye and crashed on through the bushes , clink-clink-clinking in search of another rabbit hole . |
| 28 | Across the highway , the driver of the second rig swung his wheel hard over and accelerated in through the gap in the wake of the three fire tenders . |
| 29 | So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path . |
| 30 | Jed left the expressway at the Baker Park exit and cut down through houses of clapperboard and dull red brick . |