Example sentences of "[to-vb] through his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man is learning slowly how deeply the experience of God 's forgiveness has to penetrate through his whole being . |
| 2 | Of the 30 patients randomised to NIPPV , 4 did not receive it : 2 because they were confused and could not cooperate , 1 because he was unable to breathe through his nose , and 1 because he requested the withdrawal of all active treatment . |
| 3 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 4 | It was only because of fortuitous circumstances that Bunny Johnson was allowed to carry through his successful challenge in 1975 . |
| 5 | No minister can afford to fail to carry through his or her party 's pledges even if this means forcing local authorities to comply — by creating comprehensive schools or selling council houses . |
| 6 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 7 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 8 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 9 | And it was the thought of all the children who , like Danny might have experimented not knowing that they were dicing with death , that prompted David to try to stop any more parents having to go through his own agony . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you for allowing me to go through his papers . ’ |
| 11 | " How long do you think it would take whoever killed him to go through his pockets and cut out the clothes labels ? " asked Sergeant Burgess . |
| 12 | ‘ The version I heard-was that Lesley-Jane was going out to dinner with Michael Banks ‘ to go through his lines ’ . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Until we 've had a chance to go through his papers . |
| 14 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 15 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 16 | It features characters from the dance-halls , bars , brothels and circuses of Paris , some of whom he helped to promote through his posters . |
| 17 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 18 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |
| 19 | The phrasing in a couple of the sections is a little tricky , so you would be well advised to work through his solo in close conjunction with the record . |
| 20 | The instructor should encourage the pilot to talk through his thoughts aloud to find out whether not using the airbrakes is caused by failing to realise the glider is too high or by not being quick enough to decide and act . |
| 21 | Something seemed to pour through his face and overwhelm her , something molten , timeless , glorious . |
| 22 | Then there was Mervyn : tall , dark and monosyllabic , with a slow but sure sense of humour which had to circle through his brain . |
| 23 | Far from studying the distribution of the finches in the light of this information , Darwin had to sort through his collection trying to remember where each specimen had been captured . |
| 24 | Father Poole tried to smile through his tears . |
| 25 | Who had the cheek to walk through his corn ? |
| 26 | But Central Office could exert only informal pressure , since it could neither bully nor bribe its local supporters , and this is exactly what Steel-Maitland set out to do through his district agents . |
| 27 | He started to hum through his nose . |
| 28 | For , just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles , a right recognised by law in this country since 1916 , so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf . |
| 29 | She had decided to read through his poems , slowly and thoughtfully , in these queues . |
| 30 | Because the broker deals only as principal , his client would not be able to read through his contract to the market ( and so require its performance ) if the broker defaults ; this contrasts significantly with the position on the London Stock Exchange . |