Example sentences of "[v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 2 | We can imagine animals like these darting through the undergrowth in search of food while the colossal reptiles lumbered obliviously around them . |
| 3 | While eating we watched a variety of cheeky small birds darting through the restaurant , picking up tasty crumbs of freshly baked bread and croissants or dipping their long narrow beaks around the lid of the sugar bowl when the waiters were n't looking . |
| 4 | But , even as she thought it , she rejected the question and felt a surge of anger go darting through her . |
| 5 | His hands brushed her breasts , already ripe beneath her blouse , sending shafts of electricity darting through her . |
| 6 | On a final , poignant note , I notice a large arrow sticking through the front and rear of the house . |
| 7 | The three newspapers I took were sticking through my front door , which was at the side of the house . |
| 8 | Farrell saw the smashed bone sticking through skin and material . |
| 9 | Margaret shuddered , wide awake now , her heart racing , gazing through the shadowy darkness of her room , thoughts rushing through her mind . |
| 10 | As one train starts to move , a passenger gazing through his carriage window , observes movement but is unsure whether it is his own train that is moving or the train on the opposite line . |
| 11 | Turn it into a utopian commune where women , gazing through mullioned windows at the lake , weave medieval tapestries . ’ |
| 12 | Emily Grenfell clasped her hands together , sitting on the edge of her seat gazing through the small window of the coach as it rumbled along Mumbles Road in the fashionable area of Swansea . |
| 13 | ‘ How much longer ? ’ he said irritably , gazing through the windscreen , out across the Thames . |
| 14 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 15 | One pupil , sitting in the coveted position alongside the radiator , is gazing through the window and into the distance . |
| 16 | Reaching her car at last , she drove away into the silent night , gazing through a gauze of tears over the snow-covered mountains ahead . |
| 17 | Emma looked into her mother 's face , and then making a small movement with her head before turning away and , gazing through the windscreen , she said , ‘ I 'm … |
| 18 | I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium . |
| 19 | He was gazing through her , black eyes like two probes , annihilating her with his immovable hostility . |
| 20 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 21 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 22 | Rattling through the broken no man 's land between the town and the dam , the dark windows of the train showed only our own reflections . |
| 23 | Imagine Sun Ra and his Arkestra fumbling through a version of Funkadelic 's ‘ Maggot Brain ’ while a backbeat of earth-shaking dub hardcore metal and jazz squeal swirls in the distance … and that 's only a fragment of Praxis ' power ! |
| 24 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 25 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 26 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |
| 27 | Repercussions over Dowty are still re-verberating through TI today , almost nine months after the bid was declared unconditional . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm zapping through old classics from de Sade and Fanny Hill right through to William Burroughs and Henry Miller — all the dirty books one has heard of but never read . |
| 29 | In the commercial world diplomacy is profiting through people , not from people . |
| 30 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |