Example sentences of "through [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The useful information in this book is shot through with the engaging assertion that the books are biographical and that when he journeyed to some of the scenes of Hornblower 's exploits the author was truly following in the steps of his hero . |
| 32 | Despite extensive modernisation , its inherent air of historical grandeur shines through with the fine wood panelling , oak beams , a splendid staircase , ruined moat and pretty walled garden . |
| 33 | He knew he would have to go through with the nightly ritual . |
| 34 | Then Irvine broke through from the halfway line to make the score 3–3 . |
| 35 | In the shadows its gold rim funnelled darkness through from the black night of meanings . |
| 36 | For the bridge Encore have used rosewood , with the strings fixed through from the rear edge . |
| 37 | It was Thursday 5 September and he was about to leave his office to drive to Bramshill Police College to begin a series of lectures to the Senior Command Course when the call came through from the private office . |
| 38 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 39 | Then , two minutes before the end of the game , the news came through from the other ground that Sunderland had lost . |
| 40 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 41 | A presence forcing its way through from the Other Side . |
| 42 | This is pulled through from the tufted end , a technique particularly useful for vending machine parts and similar to that used for cleaning rifles . |
| 43 | But it 's , it 's , it 's it sort a it 's , I think carrying through from the old borough days |
| 44 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 45 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 46 | I mean you 've got to try and keep yourself afloat , and then even that 's not going to help you , if nobody comes along and picks you up either , so I mean that But I mean I I did n't Oh well I Suppose I could say I gave up hope a few times but obviously if you s The struggle to survive comes through in the long run , and I mean it 's it 's not easy to give up hope , |
| 47 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 48 | Mace believes those copyright and interface issues are now being worked through in the current round of legal skirmishes between Intel Corp and its iAPX-86 impersonators such as Advanced Micro Devices . |
| 49 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 50 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 51 | Moreover , if they were to break through within the established system then they just might be a little less enthusiastic about introducing proportional representation as " a first priority " since it could let one of the parties they would have displaced back into the game . |
| 52 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 53 | Austrian Gerhard Berger was sixth in a Ferrari , also on his first outing after returning to the team , having stolen through on the penultimate lap . |
| 54 | Yesterday , as the sun broke through on the peaceful setting of Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh they and others who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco and made the ultimate sacrifice , were remembered . |
| 55 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 56 | Could you carry the idea through on the headed notepaper ? |
| 57 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 58 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 59 | According to Professor Midwinter of University College London , optoelectronics research is instead becoming increasingly focussed on communications and switching applications — from fibre optic cabling through to the internal structure of microchips . |
| 60 | In most species there are at least three distinct classes of ganglion cells in the retina that conduct information through to the visual cortex in physiologically distinguishable streams . |