Example sentences of "and through the " in BNC.

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1 Catholicism is present in everyday life through state law , as well as through authoritative statements by clergy and through the national — popular consciousness .
2 For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later .
3 It has improved our ability to model cognitive processes , both as a spin-off from the computations necessary to create artificial intelligences and through the computing metaphors used in cognitive psychology .
4 It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones .
5 Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight .
6 The activity on the road on the other side of the orchard had increased , there were troops and the occasional vehicle moving up and through the village followed by the usual German mortaring of the road and orchard .
7 Several violent explosions close by , followed by clouds of black smoke rising in columns above the trees , shrapnel hissing along the ground and through the trees as I dived head-first into the trench to join the three Frenchmen .
8 It stems also from the inherent violence of sexual subordination and the ( mis ) representation which ( re ) produces it , especially in and through the category of the sexual deviant .
9 Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself .
10 progress was occasionally slow but the big driver was coaxing the big wheels gently over and through the snow .
11 He absorbed European culture through nineteenth-century French novels , and through the literature of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain , the Spanish cultural Golden Age .
12 I know my Spencer ancestors built their wealth in the sixteenth century on the rearing of sheep , and I believe one of the benefits of receiving the Freedom of the City is that Freemen , or Women , are able to drive sheep across London Bridge and through the City of London .
13 At the weekend we had Peter Brook 's approach via the South Bank Show ( LWT ) and through the foothills of Lear and the Marat/Sade to this Everest of an Indian epic .
14 FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away .
15 However , little by little , as Aspreys sold more and more of his artefacts , so Ernest bought up more and more land along the cliff and through the village .
16 The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on .
17 There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget .
18 Suddenly there was a commotion outside as Nigel and Elinor hurtled up the garden path and through the front door .
19 There were even times when the massive outlet-pipe became blocked at the point where it burst from the hillside and through the tunnel wall .
20 Sweetheart gripped his hand and they hurried in silence down the side of Brooke Parker 's and through the iron gate at the bottom of the slope .
21 Instead he ran down the side of the building , past the high wall of its rear yard and through the gate leading to Old Ashfield .
22 Yes , down the lawn and through the orchard and then , if it were a really fine evening , out , up the hill .
23 Downstairs , the butcher stood , waiting , curious , impatient , and through the open door , he saw fresh pies , a wire rack full of small cakes , a chocolate sponge .
24 And through the drifts the snowy clifts
25 Beyond it flowed the heavy mainstream , with small eddies curling along and through the wire on the surface .
26 Driving across the flat and prosperous farmlands of Picardy and through the shabby industrial suburbs of Charleroi and Liège to the German/Belgian frontier on which Aachen sits , the first thing you notice is its novelty .
27 But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges …
28 Training , in Wembley , is on Tuesday evenings for enthusiasts in the London area , and through the winter there are weekend expeditions in the northern and western parts of Britain .
29 He really launches himself into and through the ball .
30 It comes through friendship with June ( Elizabeth Perkins ) , an attractive young woman dying of a brain tumour , and through the mortifying experience of hospital bureaucracy from the other side of the counter .
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