Example sentences of "and through " in BNC.

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1 Every so often , wild disordered men , with matted hair and ‘ unseeing red eyes ’ , are glimpsed ‘ tramping along old paths , across gardens , between houses , and through what remained of woodland , like aborigines recognising only an ancestral landscape and insisting on some ancient right of way ’ .
2 Catholicism is present in everyday life through state law , as well as through authoritative statements by clergy and through the national — popular consciousness .
3 The childish words went through and through his mind , blotting out all coherent thought .
4 They make deceptively subtle demands on their audience , and through all of them there runs a strong sense of humour .
5 There are two main types of lifts — Stairlifts and Through Floor Lifts .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Canon Arbeau in his Orchésographie ( 1588 ) recommended the use of four positions from and through which the feet moved , the turn-out to show off the line of the leg and ports de bras to display one 's carriage and courteous behaviour .
9 She puts it on to follow Raskolnikov on his final journey to the police station , and through his mind flashes the thought that this is the shawl Marmeladov referred to in the pub as ‘ the family one ’ .
10 It suggests that there are universal human qualities , and that people can recognize them in Shakespeare 's dramas , over the centuries and through many cultural mediations .
11 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 .
12 In any case , Fred Winterbotham first succeeded in charming the Nazis ' arch-ideologue Alfred Rosenberg and through him mingled attentively with the highest elements of the Party .
13 The astounding indulgences granted Winterbotham by the regime apparently formed part of a scheme to woo ranking foreigners and through them impress their governments with Germany 's mounting might .
14 It snakes in and out of ports , along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities .
15 The General has frequent contact with Winnie Mandela — and through her indirectly with her husband - as well as with the ANC leadership .
16 Out of the dust of the Bodleian , Dr Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us ; and through their fresh and often subversive eyes , the Augustan age seems much closer than it did .
17 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 .
18 Many trade union leaders and ordinary workers want a repeat dose to wipe out fortunes accumulated on the black market and through high-priced co-operatives of ‘ rouble millionaires ’ .
19 Under Sean Kerly , Southgate have got their act together quickly , even allowing for the loss of such players as Richard Dodds and Robert Clift , Peter Boxell and Jagdis Barber , and through injury , Rupert Welch and John Shaw .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The official summits will be outlined in an OS publication which will be available in bookshops in August , and through Climb For The World registration packs .
23 The basic Conservative policy between the wars was to encourage the speedy building of houses at low cost by every means and through every agency .
24 The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself .
25 All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again .
26 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 .
27 In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process .
28 A significant focus for the controversy was the theatre , which , like the transvestite , was seen both to epitomize and to promote contemporary forces of disruption in and through its involvement with cross-dressing .
29 As for the colonial context , Homi Bhabha argues that here mimicry is both a strategy of colonial subjection — an appropriation , regulation , and reform of the other — and , potentially , a way of menacing colonial discourse in and through an inappropriate imitation by the native , one which reveals the normative structure of colonial control .
30 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 .
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