Example sentences of "of [pron] [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found a field of yellow rape in full Liberal Democrat bloom and he wanted a picture of me walking through it . |
| 2 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 3 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 4 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 5 | She had let the fire go out since even the soft fall of ash , the spit of a sudden irritable flame , the shifting of branches in the course of their own attrition filled her ears with restless noise and muffled what might be sounding outside : the soft tread of something moving closer , the susurration of something being unsheathed , the breath of someone hissing through his teeth . |
| 6 | It was like the sound of someone blowing through a piece of pipe . |
| 7 | He asked the others about the letter " I " : Hodgkiss said it brought to mind Henry James 's simile for the dress of Sarah Pocock , " scarlet like the scream of someone falling through a skylight " . |
| 8 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 9 | Nell tripped on the edge of the door frame , fell head-first into the engine room , and was conscious of something scything through the air , snatching at the rubber back of her wet suit . |
| 10 | It had n't been a busy day in London town , but there was no mention of anybody falling through windows in Leytonstone . |
| 11 | Once , the wind blew her long , pale hair forwards over his shoulder and strands of it caught his face and stroked it , and he could smell the fragrance of her drifting through his body . |
| 12 | The room was small , and if a chair stood on the other side of the fireplace from where Aunt Louise sat , it was in the way of anyone passing through the door leading into the kitchen , or that leading to the stairs . |