Example sentences of "[v-ing] through [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |
| 2 | So if we knew where any collection of molecules ( like you ) were now , and how they were moving , we might even use scientific laws to predict where you would go on your holidays and save you leafing through all those glossy brochures . |
| 3 | I was amazed during a recent visit to headquarters of the number of requests for posters and tickets I saw when I was leafing through that bible , the design it file . |
| 4 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 5 | Wading through this , apace : a man taller than any of the artisans . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 7 | Shaping through both planes means two templates , one for each plane , as in the back legs . |
| 8 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 9 | This lavish book provides us with a full-colour holiday brochure ; a ‘ sightseer 's guide for anyone journeying through this brave new world ’ . |
| 10 | The secondary resource should provide a means or a vehicle for driving through this pain barrier experienced by many children , but apparently not recognised by many teachers . |
| 11 | Picture a beautiful scene — whatever kind of landscape pleases you the most — and imagine that you are walking through that place . |
| 12 | Basically interviewers are hoping that the answer to all their prayers is going to come walking through that door . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the Museum and the Reading Room of the British Library Reference Division share a common entrance , so any simple count of people walking through either of the two entrances to the building would certainly give a correct number of people entering the Museum , but it would not be correct for genuine visitors to the Museum . |
| 14 | To Victorian eyes , any interior from that earlier period might have seemed underfurnished ; but the construction that George Eliot puts on the dominance of walls and ceiling is decisively Victorian in its moral emphasis : ‘ in walking through these rooms with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture , which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed before personal comfort was thought of , I have felt that there dwelt in this old English baronet some of that sublime spirit which distinguishes art from luxury , and worships beauty apart from self-indulgence ’ . |
| 15 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 16 | I do not mourn for Mr. Fyfe , but is he to be branded a dishonest man because of the Government 's insensitivity in railroading through these unwanted applications ? |
| 17 | ‘ It saves you weaving through all those tables and chairs , ’ Kolchinsky replied . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , of course , there are his heavy duties as librarian — checking through all those magazines to make sure they 're intact takes a fair bit of time . |
| 19 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 20 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 21 | For many people living through that time , 1968 was the unforgivable pin that pricked the bubble : and with the deflation of the great illusion that the 1960s was a perpetual party came the realisation of the cost . |
| 22 | Mind you some people living through that , you know George ? |
| 23 | Many relationships begin to fail at this stage , and are often allowed to do so by default because the difficulties of living through this stage of life are insufficiently understood . |
| 24 | After living through this event , with its profoundly shattering consequences to Europe , Freud becomes more concerned with the idea of there being a basic mutual hostility between human beings . |
| 25 | Where written pupil work is produced , it obviously contains a great deal of information ; something can be learnt about the general stage of understanding of the class by looking through such work after the lesson , while more is revealed if it is possible to discuss it with the pupil concerned . |
| 26 | We were looking through that and erm Mr was the first er County Librarian in East Suffolk |
| 27 | We 're looking through that Mary . |
| 28 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 29 | And when you get to the branch you get your bumf and you sit there looking through all the bumf . |
| 30 | But erm , and I was looking through all these posters and most of them were of nude women ! |