Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First there was the curving trip in a white car that rocked through the mag-lev tunnels to the spaceport . |
| 2 | In the cold light that streamed through the small window across his face , she saw his half-open eyes , his tongue licking dry lips , and heard the quick harsh breathing . |
| 3 | The white envelope turned red in the light that fell through the coloured squares of glass above the front door . |
| 4 | Surere leant forward and his head , for the first time , was fully illuminated by the narrow shaft of light that fell through the window . |
| 5 | But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good . |
| 6 | Dust floated in the beams of light that flooded through the fanlight over the front door . |
| 7 | the evening was fragrant , warm and rich , lit by the great wash of gold light that flooded through the cloud chasms in the western skies . |
| 8 | Outside the sky is still overcast , and the murky yellow light that filters through the vertical louvres of the window blinds is hardly enough to read by . |
| 9 | I was comforted by the little natural light that seeped through the canvas . |
| 10 | These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design . |
| 11 | There 's supposed to be a white horse that goes through the square at and er it er supposed to pay this horseman or something but I do n't really ken much about it . |
| 12 | Canon Devlin intoned the burial service in a creaky Latin and pulled his long cloak tighter around him against the wind that sifted through the cemetery on the outskirts of Milltown . |
| 13 | Perhaps that was the only case that fell through the net , and I hope that it was an isolated case , but I should be grateful if my right hon. Friend would examine the matter and if necessary ensure that such a thing is not allowed to happen again . |
| 14 | A along Forest Lane Head , really the the bit that passes through the countryside between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 15 | The general tenor of the letters , the thread that ran through the vast majority soon became clear . |
| 16 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 17 | The thread that runs through the epics , from the medieval roots to the nineteenth century , is of the struggle for survival of the Christian Slavs against the Turks . |
| 18 | As I stated at the beginning of this book , the common thread that runs through the different chapters is the problem of continuity/discontinuity . |
| 19 | Well the obvious explanation is that that is the point that our modern hero , the connecting thread that runs through the whole design , can have none of the grandeur of the ancient one . |
| 20 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 21 | The camera adores her and she has this wonderful presence that comes through the camera lens . |
| 22 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 23 | ‘ Good , ’ he said thickly , raking a hand through his hair , then turned and strode out of the villa , slamming the door behind him with a crash that reverberated through the house . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ she said desperately , and turned and walked away , mingling with the throng that shuffled through the narrow streets rubbing shoulders with each other . |
| 25 | All saw the shudder that rippled through the big man like a wave ; the way his chin jutted forward and his face contorted in agony as he steeled himself to strike . |
| 26 | On the westward side of Heart o' Corrie a path is traced winding up the hill ; it is reached by fording the burn that flows through the glen . |
| 27 | The canal route was dark and it was deep and it was a secret vein that ran through the heart of the city , and only the scum dropped down here after hours and expected to survive . |
| 28 | THE gales of laughter that swept through the audience at a private screening of the epic , Christopher Columbus The Discovery , this week herald a rough voyage for the costly £30 million saga due to open here in September . |
| 29 | They play with a raw , unsmiling aggression that cuts through the crappy circumstances . |
| 30 | Er er but I think that 's the , the theme that runs through the whole thing , especially when he 's talking about his fourteen great achievements , is the fact that basically I mean he 's trying to sell himself , as you said before , he 's a pretty lowly member at this , you know , erm at this case and there therefore obviously he 's out to make a name for himself . |