Example sentences of "break through [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 2 | Whether they break through to the next level will make interesting watching : the forthcoming exhibition and David Sylvester 's catalogue raisonné may prove influential . |
| 3 | The lyrics deal with teenage frustrations and breaking through to the other side . |
| 4 | Boxers , footballers and athletes who eventually broke through at the highest level , in championships in football league , in international meetings , made it not so much in spite of their blackness but because of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then Irvine broke through from the halfway line to make the score 3–3 . |
| 7 | When the trees are coated in ice the bird is unable to break through for the life-sustaining food which it so desperately needs . |
| 8 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 9 | Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary . |
| 10 | Rank was so convinced that making expensive films was the way to break through into the American market that he made no attempt to rein back costs . |
| 11 | 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 . |