Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey exports up to 50 million bulbs a year with the majority passing through the Netherlands . |
| 2 | You can even see the gesso oozing through the canvas weave in the reverse . |
| 3 | Is there something significant in this , that the blackbird scolding through the bonny banks makes a heart that is weary and full of care , well up inside with pain ? |
| 4 | Paul ignored the rebuff and turned to Christina instead , pointing to his drawing and explaining : ‘ I drew the pool as an oasis , surrounded by traveller 's palms for maximum shade , and I thought the waterfall cascading through the coral-stone rock formation balanced it perfectly . ’ |
| 5 | ACTION : Firemen haul on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames raging through the flats |
| 6 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 7 | We would spend the afternoon walking through the streets of Verona in the twilight which , with the prevailing fog , lasted most of the after noon . |
| 8 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 9 | Bosses at the Ellesmere Port factory say the new V6 engine plant will guarantee employment levels despite the recession sweeping through the motor industry . |
| 10 | Rohmer looked to the storm blasting through the blown-out window . |
| 11 | It fulfils its more conventional role as a control for the mix of wet ( effected ) signal to dry signal , balancing the level coming through the loop with that going directly through the preamp . |
| 12 | How comfortable we feel is determined not only by the temperature of the body ( in effect , the temperature of the blood going through the brain ) but also by that of the skin . |
| 13 | Active rest is better than passive rest , so , unless you have very bad blisters , I recommend walking , cycling or swimming , but the main thing is to get the blood circulating through the working muscles and removing the fatigue products . |
| 14 | She lay on the roof looking through the artificial skylight . |
| 15 | It looks like any high street sweatshop except for the light streaming through the huge windows looking across Paris , the dummies bearing the names an exact shapes of various famous models and customers , and the quiet pride in the workers ' faces as they attach elaborately-tooled gold leather to a bustier , hand-embroidered velvet details to a pocket flap , a mink trim to an underskirt . |
| 16 | A silhouette appeared against the light streaming through the cabin doorway . |
| 17 | Other than the light seeping through the hatchway behind me , the only thing visible was twin columns of dim stripes from a pair of narrow slatted windows in the end wall . |
| 18 | To make the most of the light coming through the window — which preferably should not be direct sunlight — seat the letter writers to face diagonally onto the window so that they are attractively cross-lit . |
| 19 | Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured . |
| 20 | The tides surging through the coral heads charge the water with oxygen and the tropical sun warms it and fills it with light . |
| 21 | In the evenings we would stroll along the Corniche and have dinner at a riverside restaurant where we could watch the feluccas passing through the reflections of the lights on Elephantine Island . |
| 22 | The huge bulk of Kress appeared framed in the doorway peering through the gloom of the restaurant in an attempt to see who was calling . |
| 23 | They fed trout in the lake at Sandringham House , slid down the banisters , took Jill , their springer spaniel for long rambles , played hide and seek in the garden , listened to the wind whistling through the trees and hunted for pigeons ' eggs . |
| 24 | There are some who say the vision occurred at Halling and one sceptic says the wind whistling through the palace in its Ninous condition combined with his fever would account for the voices . |
| 25 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 26 | I wish I were in my bed at Wuthering Heights , with the wind howling through the trees . |
| 27 | Something was sweeping through that massive arena like the wind moving through the top of the trees . |
| 28 | Many a time I have walked in the neighbouring church grounds aurally locating the sound of the distant well [ Ashwell ] , shifting my focus to the sound of the wind blowing through the tops of an adjacent circle of Scots Pine , then merging the two together in a synthesis of natural sound to create a powerful aurally based sense of place . |
| 29 | It was cold in the clear night , with the wind running through the Dale . |
| 30 | He could hear the wind moaning through the house . |