Example sentences of "[v-ing] through the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach . |
| 2 | Although the City Council paid the bill for dry cleaning he never forgot the smell or the indignity of walking through the City streets on a summer evening drenched in manure . |
| 3 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 4 | Forster held his legs , leaving Delaney free to grip his Smith and Wesson two-handed , searching through the metal steps for any danger . |
| 5 | Sitting on the sofa with my loved one , browsing through the TV pages of the paper , I said innocently , ‘ A Room With A View 's on tonight . |
| 6 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 7 | There 's not much chance of wearing through the Vibram soles of these Veta V Daisy Roots though . |
| 8 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 9 | BUSES rumbling through the city streets in 1986 could need 30 per cent less fuel than they do now to bring the cry ‘ standing room only ’ to impatient queues . |
| 10 | Fig. 5.9(b) shows that at low speeds the voltage is essentially as expected , but at high speeds the phase current is freewheeling through the bridge diodes against the supply voltage for a significant proportion of the cycle . |
| 11 | I saw her flitting through the island trees in her Ascot gloves , for ever searching for Kew . |
| 12 | In early March 1322 , when Lancaster was retreating through the north midlands before the royal army , Holland crossed over to Edward . |
| 13 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |