Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , though the place was as ill-furnished as it was ill-lit , they hung around there , putting books away in lockers , glancing at newspapers , knocking out their pipes or whipping through the odd bits of marking . |
| 2 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 3 | Third parties are those outside a bilateral relationship , whether formally created , for example by treaty or the commencement of proceedings , or occurring through events such as the outbreak of armed conflict . |
| 4 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 5 | After a couple of hours on Outrun or Road Rash , you 'll see them whizzing through Kwiksave with a trolley on a mission or storming through red lights in a Fiat Panda . |
| 6 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
| 7 | It only ventures out at night , and spends most of its time up in trees or scrambling through scrub . |
| 8 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 9 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 10 | His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence . |
| 11 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 12 | Finish off soaked filters by flushing with a hose or pressure jet or passing through a dishwasher . |
| 13 | ( THE PATIENT FOLLOWS THE MOVEMENT , WITHOUT PUSHING OR PULLING THROUGH HIS ARM . ) |
| 14 | Was I respecting the life within me , or pandering to my own healthy terror or going through what Alice went through ? |
| 15 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 16 | If you sp if you spend five minutes drawing a diagram or going through the equations person knows one aspect of this model in great detail , what they want to know is what was the importance of that , of that model , important results of the model . |
| 17 | I do n't do country things like farming for a living , or swishing through drenched roots , gun in hand , after game birds for recreation . |
| 18 | Or strolling through one of Hamilton 's many museums . |
| 19 | So does the vulnerability of people at work , or moving through the transport networks , or living near large industrial plants . |
| 20 | Forfeiting an extra hour in bed to get up and muck out while it is still pitch dark or traipsing through muddy fields on bitterly cold days to break the ice on the water trough can take its toll on the keenest of owners . |
| 21 | Since lunch-time I 'd done nothing except be in the company of women , hanging around in pubs or crawling through traffic . |
| 22 | The infant was either blowing or hallooing through chubby cupped hands . |
| 23 | The older dog can usually compensate for failing eyesight or hearing through a highly developed sense of smell — it gradually learns to cope . |
| 24 | It is losing the war or winning through peace … |
| 25 | You see when Scum play passes like that it 's ‘ running into space & playing through the channels ’ . |
| 26 | It is one which , whether measured in terms of winning elections or carrying through policies , has been remarkably successful . |
| 27 | Some of the many ways in which dolphins make signal gestures to humans are leaping at significant moments , deliberately splashing people on boats after first making close eye contact , vocalising or whistling through the blowhole after people have made communicative calls or whistles , defaecation and touching . |
| 28 | The observer will need to be there observing , but possibly behind a hidden camera or watching through a one-way vision screen — he or she need not be in among the action . |
| 29 | Another difference was the fact that Green lived in the Lake District rather than just visiting or touring through it . |
| 30 | Or somebody saying , yeah , I took , I want them to do it because , they 're actually underlying , and er , if either of these cases , where there is lying , if you drop into line , er what we do in case studies , or working through it , I shall say stop , start again , okay . |