Example sentences of "through with the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air was close , soured through with the smell of size , canvas and stewed tea , and , around the entrance cubbyhole of Bert , the stagedoor-keeper , Goldflake cigarettes and the chancey whiff of Flossie , his aged spaniel . |
| 2 | So we pressed through with the course of action . |
| 3 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |
| 4 | Christian Burial of the Dead combines with Buddha 's Fire Sermon , but both are shot through with the sort of primitive fertility cycle hinted at in ‘ Death by Water ’ . |
| 5 | And then you just follow through with the introduction at the end . |
| 6 | A braver man than most of his successors , he challenged the Gerry Adams of the day to a duel and crossed to Ostend to meet his enemy , but the project fell through with the arrest of his opponent . |
| 7 | There is nothing to make it in the firm 's best interests actually to follow through with the punishment in the period following a deviation , given the game that then presents itself . |
| 8 | He notices , for example , that Dickens started writing Barnaby Rudge , a novel shot through with the theme of difficult father-son relationships , at a time when his own spendthrift father was forging his son 's signature as a means of acquiring credit . |