Example sentences of "through it " in BNC.

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1 ’ Pilinski had to redraw his copy of the old and valuable original because he could not paste the original on his block and engrave through it .
2 So I asked if I might go through it again and try some of the ideas he talked about .
3 But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ?
4 A barely perceptible delay as you gaze through it .
5 He thumbed through it till he came to Merrivale .
6 A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed .
7 She and her music would get through it ; just as Jay was forcing herself to thrive on an inimitable diet of white wine and forties Chicago gangland trash .
8 His attention was caught by the National Bank of Greece — not an inappropriate interest for one who had composed ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and was drawn to Judaism 's most persistent ‘ enemy ’ through it .
9 Through it all the words dance like butterflies and dart like wasps .
10 I sighed , opened the first folder and flipped through it .
11 We 'll only have to go through it all again when we move . ’
12 She moved her glass , picked up the brochure and leafed through it , studying pictures of happy couples .
13 So I can run through it before the presentation . ’
14 She freewheeled into the village , pedalled doggedly through it , then tackled the hill on the other side .
15 ‘ I hope you 're not going to talk all the way through it . ’
16 By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu .
17 Do not direct a beam where people will walk through it : eyes take time to readjust to dark areas again , and this can be a potential hazard .
18 During the periods when the core is not saturated , the inductance of the coil causes the current passing through it to change linearly from one saturation state to the other .
19 The only answer is to spread the people and the jobs thinner — so that fewer travellers , bringing their cars and their litter - journey into it or through it .
20 He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can .
21 One day I was browsing through it in the shop .
22 And through it all he stayed .
23 The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it .
24 The closest I will ever come to staying there is when I pass through it to reach the stop for the buses into town .
25 The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix .
26 They have come through it all with courage and resilience but the community support structures have been ruptured and have not yet been re-established — and perhaps never will be in the same way .
27 Wexford leafed through it and saw that Hatton had paid twenty-five pounds for the lamp on May 22nd .
28 I watch her face when she reads through it .
29 It 's like a big marble — real heavy , like — and when you look through it everything goes upside down .
30 I like looking through it .
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