Example sentences of "way [adv prt] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally a metal detoxifier attacks heavy metals like copper that may find their way in through the tapwater . |
| 2 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 3 | The plane from Glasgow via Tiree duly sprayed its way in through the hail and the wind and a new set of passengers filed on . |
| 4 | A way in through the stage door |
| 5 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 6 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 7 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 8 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 9 | She talked almost all the way down through the forest : and then , when we were out in the open she started again , ‘ Do you see those trees over there ? ’ |
| 10 | The snow was falling in earnest as we wound our way down through the trees , and the rich colours of the forest — the pine-green and henna-red bracken — were rapidly fading to ashen . |
| 11 | In the heart of Trazior , as in every other hive on Necromunda , a vast tube of plasteel plunged all the way down through the crust of the planet . |
| 12 | They make their way down through the courtyard past the concierge 's busy-lizzies and geraniums in their cluster of terracotta and out onto the street where the Mercedes and driver are double-parked squeezing the traffic to an irascible trickle . |
| 13 | If you are using Windows then this scheme is particularly easy because all you have to do is click your way down through the duplicate directories in the File Manager until you ca n't find another copy of the directory and then drag the current version into the final old copy . |
| 14 | Nathan helped me to my feet and very cautiously picked a way up through the boulders and small crags towards the road . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | The mass of new , hot rock forcing its way up through the crater floor had both helped to displace the water from the crater , and heated it up to nearly boiling point , so it was a scalding torrent that flashed down the valley , travelling at a speed of something like ninety kilometres an hour . |
| 17 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 18 | In a month or so , when the camera crews have left South-Central Los Angeles and weeds begin to poke their way up through the tarmac in the burned-out lots , it will be easy enough to see who was just talking and who had a genuine plan . |
| 19 | In the past all airlines have relied heavily on self-improvers working their way up through the system . |
| 20 | This will enable the current coaches , now established as a so-called cluster , and their successors in the years to come , to identify and monitor the development of present and future Canada players as they work their way up through the system . |
| 21 | After a while , Niki worked his way up through the field until only Tambay and Prost were ahead of him ; then Prost had to abandon the race with a loose wheel , a stupid mechanical mistake , which put Niki on Tambay 's tail . |
| 22 | The acrid , choking fumes eventually found their way up through the ventilators on the top of the hill and the height of steam motive power over one hundred trains per day passed through Blea Moor Tunnel . |
| 23 | Stem growth originating from the root-stock below ground can be a problem because , by the time these shoots push their way up through the soil and show out , they are well advanced and reluctant to ‘ let go ’ — gloves are essential . |
| 24 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 25 | It goes from 0–62 in 8.4 seconds , all the way up through the rev band to a top speed of 129 mph , although no en route to Tooting . |
| 26 | As a consequence , the chick when it hatches is very fully developed and able to dig its own way up through the sand . |
| 27 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 28 | Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods . |
| 29 | Social service leaders worked their way up through the system . |
| 30 | His lips were fiercely hot , melting every bone in Isabel 's body , despite the dawning knowledge fighting its way up through the mists of sleep still clinging to her brain . |