Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 2 | Although Mr Parkinson did not entirely dismiss rule out road pricing , he will disappoint a the growing lobby wanting of those pressing for the Government to introduce schemes result in estimated charging s of £3 to £4 around £3 — £4 for to drive through central London . |
| 3 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 4 | But Ramsey had an alarming faculty for seeing through his own utterances . |
| 5 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 6 | Energy secretary John Wakeham , who was responsible for seeing through the electricity privatisation last year , has pledged that legislation for the sell-off will appear in a new Tory government 's first term , with a commitment in the election manifesto . |
| 7 | The secondary resource should provide a means or a vehicle for driving through this pain barrier experienced by many children , but apparently not recognised by many teachers . |
| 8 | The limbs were modified into efficient paddles , perfectly adapted for sculling through the water . |
| 9 | ‘ We guessed , ’ said Faye , ‘ when you were more concerned about getting down to the blood bank than about thrashing through my prognosis with Dr Greene . ’ |
| 10 | And just the sense of security and I do n't think that the level of incidence was very high , but it was enough to make people feel insecure about walking through there at night . |
| 11 | Thus the Decorator collection , into which she plunged more and more of her energies , was not only a useful device for slicing through hidebound public taste , but gave Laura a focus once more for her creative effervescence . |
| 12 | A FIREFIGHTER who had to be airlifted to hospital after crashing through a footbridge into an isolated stream yesterday spoke of his ordeal . |
| 13 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 14 | After singing through the song once or twice I then say . |
| 15 | After wading through the comprehensive 40 page manual you may have some idea of what to do as , yet again , it 's simulation time ! |
| 16 | Brave Angela , 55 , was pounded by flailing hooves — after wading through a ‘ mass of cows in a circle ’ to reach her pet lying unconscious on the ground . |
| 17 | The raid however took only ten minutes and the thieves escaped undetected after sawing through iron bars on a basement window to enter , removing the eight works and fleeing in time to avoid the police cordon flung round the city . |
| 18 | He had first of all , as if in some extraordinary dream , after struggling through the dark tunnel , seen her in bed , seen her dark bright eyes , reflecting the candlelight , gazing calmly at him ; and he had imagined her to be a child , a boy . |
| 19 | After struggling through umpteen games of blackjack , I would taxi home and sleep till 8 a.m. when the boys awoke . |
| 20 | Again in 1948 , after struggling through the war years , for which services they were grossly undercompensated , these 4 grouped companies , virtually bankrupt , were nationalised , and the less profitable lines , often many of them rural , were closed and the tracks lifted . |
| 21 | MEMBERS of Strutt and Parker 's land management team in Chester , Richard Williams and James Hall , have been appointed Associates of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors after qualifying through professional examinations . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 23 | A TOP Tory MP failed a breath test after driving through a police speed trap . |
| 24 | After driving through streets filled with angry demonstrators , he found the Shah in a darkened room of the Palace , wearing large sunglasses that his half his face . |
| 25 | After living through this event , with its profoundly shattering consequences to Europe , Freud becomes more concerned with the idea of there being a basic mutual hostility between human beings . |
| 26 | After wandering through Scandinavia , permutations completed , England came to Chorzow , the last match they would play before taking part in the World Cup . |
| 27 | Drama time After recapping through still images , the teacher explains that he will now be taking on a different role . |
| 28 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 29 | Even those who have long since abandoned hope of winning Downing Street 's favour have increasingly won their places after passing through a selection process which prevents the eccentric and the too-individualistic getting a look-in . |
| 30 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |