Example sentences of "[adv] through " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( c ) left X-rays pierce right through the object , revealing the massive breaks . |
| 32 | ‘ I can see right through her ! ’ he might have boasted , if you had suggested the possibility to him . |
| 33 | Sword right through his throat . ’ |
| 34 | Although not nearly so cold as the ceramic tiles of the hall , the linoleum beneath his bare feet had a chill that seemed to creep right through his body . |
| 35 | She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china . |
| 36 | Looking right through her . |
| 37 | We had crowd-flow blockages , insufficient refreshment facilities , no VIP entrance , no security check until people were in the main auditorium , and no way to get backstage except by walking right through the main meeting , up the stairs onto the stage and out through the back — with everybody watching ! |
| 38 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 39 | For example , an energy flow from left to right through a flow from foreground to background should produce an upwards driving force that becomes diagonally anticlockwise . |
| 40 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 41 | ‘ Isla plays eight different women , ’ explains Miss McCulloch , ‘ and Derek plays Byron right through his life . |
| 42 | A walk to the Hadi Gari Bar down by the harbour will take you right through the hustle and bustle of the narrow streets of the old town and can take as little as five minutes , although you 'll be hard pressed not to be distracted by the jewellery , leather and clothes offered by street vendors at every corner . |
| 43 | Upon repair , the screws were replaced by bolts passing right through the timbers , and many of the pine timbers were replaced by lengths of jarrah wood . |
| 44 | ‘ Did the blade pass right through the person ? ’ he asked . |
| 45 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 46 | Relatively recently , feminist scholars , now drawn closer through common experience to an older generation many of whose values they had challenged , have extended their concerns and pushed forward a more subtle questioning of women 's experience of ageing and how it might differ from men 's as a result of inequalities right through the life cycle . |
| 47 | In the past , death struck right through the life cycle . |
| 48 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 49 | Every week she was expected to clean the house right through and make the dinners , while the grandmother had her outing to Edinburgh : ‘ she had jist t'come in and sit doon like a lady . ’ |
| 50 | On leaving the gallery , turn right through the passage and on to the Powder Bridge from where there is a wonderful view of the 15C fortifications built by the architect Benedikt Ried of Piesting and of the towering cathedral . |
| 51 | At 17/971 , first right through the archway are the remains of the Monastery and Church of St Michael , an important church for the followers of Jan Hus , where many of his friends preached and where the sacrament was given sub utraque specie , in both kinds ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 52 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 53 | As it was impossible to see the ground I kept my legs braced , but when I hit the desert I suffered a tremendous jolt right through my body . |
| 54 | Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria . |
| 55 | If Stirling had not been captured when he was , he would hardly have survived his planned raid on Sousse , having to approach his target right through the middle of the remnants of the Axis armies who were caught in an ever-diminishing pocket . |
| 56 | This explicit desire for deep communion with God runs right through the psalms , and it was also characteristic of the early Christian community . |
| 57 | She can see right through me , he thought . |
| 58 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 59 | So we wanted this systematic question to go right through Whitehall and to greatly reduce the functional load on departments . |
| 60 | These have continued as prosperous farming villages right through the centuries to the farmers who live in them today . |