Example sentences of "[vb base] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert . |
| 2 | The families sit through a trial and feel short-changed by the sentence handed down . ’ |
| 3 | The post-psychedelic light show ensures that the daytrippers are rooted to the floor as they sit through two and a quarter hours of swirling baby images , coloured cogs and kaleidoscope wheels . |
| 4 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 5 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 6 | Manufacturers gain through having their product demonstrated , or even through having it present in a store ( or else they would be unwilling to pay ‘ slotting allowances ’ to supermarkets ) , so that demand is not exogenous to retailing . |
| 7 | This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction . |
| 8 | The sun must only be a rare visitor to this mysterious landscape where spring flowers push through the slowly melting ice . |
| 9 | Sir Denys would then take the role of chairman , while Mr Hampel would become chief executive — and push through a radical restructuring plan ? |
| 10 | It looks an exquisite mess , but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears . |
| 11 | On Wednesday , deputies meekly passed a declaration confirming the Russian president 's powers to rule by decree , appoint ministers himself until December and push through market reforms . |
| 12 | If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom . |
| 13 | Later , true haustorial cells push through the prehaustorial cells , grow through the host and eventually establish contact with the host 's food-conducting tubes . |
| 14 | Heat to boiling , then push through a sieve . |
| 15 | Put the soup in a food processor or blender , or push through a fine sieve , and return to the pan . |
| 16 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 17 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 18 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 19 | The trek proves long and arduous , with casualties mounting as they forge through swamps and mountains before finally breaking into the Dalek city . |
| 20 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 21 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 22 | Very punctually in mid-May , the nymphs will rise from the bed of the river and hatch through a final nymph stage known to fishermen as ‘ duns ’ . |
| 23 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 24 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 25 | Northamptonshire 's Cliff Smart 's Angling Holidays are offering up to £500 in prize money for winners of certian angling festivals if you book through them . |
| 26 | If you book through a Travel Agent , you should ensure that you pay the agent in sufficient time to allow payment to reach Cosmos by the due date . |
| 27 | Consciousness you raise through your sexuality allows you to enter that non-reality and use it . |
| 28 | They are both over 450 yards and their design , as they curve through the protection of the heavy trees with a scattering of bunkers on the angles of the fairways , induces tremors in even the most hardened competitors . |
| 29 | The way was down this slope , then crash through those low pine branches , then round the top of that steep bit , then over there — I think . |
| 30 | Now we know that gale-force winds in the Channel can topple sightscreens , we must put them upwind of the pavilion this winter , and build a new pavilion out of the insurance claim when they crash through the roof . |