Example sentences of "[adv] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 2 | I settled back in my seat , picked some dirt from my fingernails with a spare scythe blade , and whispered discreetly through the partition . |
| 3 | It might have been better to handle the sale more discreetly through dealer Angela Nevill , but either way they could never fetch the prices Bond paid for them ’ . |
| 4 | And the river Nive , which is a good deal slimmer and perfectly limpid up here , near to its source in the watershed , flows discreetly through the middle of the town , dividing it into two quite equal parts . |
| 5 | In seeking to influence the size and timing of interest changes we can operate with a higher profile — through publicised 2.30 p.m. lending to the market , for example , which is the equivalent to the earlier MLR announcement ; or we can operate more discreetly through varying the scale of assistance in relation to the market 's needs or the terms on which we lend privately to the discount houses . |
| 6 | I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’ |
| 7 | Stage nerves are unlike anything else in the whole world , and many good actors will confess to them right through their careers . |
| 8 | I slept right through the night ! |
| 9 | ‘ He was ever so gentle and nice , but sort of piercing — went right through you — ’ |
| 10 | Mary peeped in to get another look at those wonderful moustaches and said to herself that they were nothing like corkscrews , more like one of those curved oriental swords that would cut right through you . |
| 11 | One simple injection , normally given in the autumn , can help to protect you right through the cold months when flu is most prevalent . |
| 12 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 13 | Intertwined with this line of attack on Labour , and running right through yesterday 's speech , was another theme , that of freedom . |
| 14 | The Civil War was over , but the social repercussions of external and internal war and revolution flowed on right through the 1920s . |
| 15 | And to get to its end point of Conwy Castle you travel right through the heart of Snowdonia taking a stunning high level route crossing peaks like Rhinog Fach , Rhinog Fawr , Glyder Fawr and Snowdon itself . |
| 16 | Pass first house ; ( bungalow ) then after 50 yds turn right through gate on to track . |
| 17 | On reaching small lake on left , keep forward on track ( waymark misleading at time of writing ) , reaching turning-circle after 100 yds. 50 yds later , turn sharp right through gate to leave WHW , and follow 1/2 mile to T-junction . |
| 18 | After 200 yds and immediately after track bends right through break in hedge turn left ( waymarked ) proceeding alongside hedge on left . |
| 19 | ( a ) Return along Church Way to High Street and take path opposite and slightly to right through gates of Manor Farm . |
| 20 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 21 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |
| 22 | At the far end was St. Giles Church — which meant we never had an excuse for being late anywhere as the bells tolled the hour — and the quarters — right through the night |
| 23 | Such ambiguities are not unique to Tanzania but run right through relationships between development agencies and African governments . |
| 24 | This lack of interest goes right through the educational system , In Ealing for example ( an area where a high proportion of the population is Asian ) not one school had facilities for teaching Asian languages . |
| 25 | Above right : I can see right through you ! |
| 26 | Tom Shakeshaft , who is 15 , reveals his dismay at plans to drive a dual carriageway right through the beautiful piece of countryside where he lives . |
| 27 | ILLUSION runs right through the text and texture of The Mahabharata ( C4 ) . |
| 28 | UNSUITABLE FOR A FAMILY NEWSPAPER Veil of secrecy ‘ You could see right through his trousers , ’ said the British judge Vanessa Riley . |
| 29 | I could prolong the ecstasy as long as I liked , even after he had fallen asleep in my arms and continued sleeping right through my climaxes . |
| 30 | ‘ Did you notice how his eyes were on me almost right through the performance ? |