Example sentences of "the road [verb] through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road passes through a landscape dotted with crumbling towers , those ‘ brooding castellations ’ which are the most striking feature of the region . |
| 2 | After a mile , the road passes through a small hamlet . |
| 3 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 4 | On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge . |
| 5 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 6 | On the southern edge of the Minoan city , the road passed through a cemetery : the Temple Tomb was the principal building in this area . |
| 7 | Outside the city the road passed through a broad expanse of flooded paddy fields where swarms of Annamese nha que were bending and straightening , belly-deep in the sludge . |