I. preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bill goes through parliament (= it goes through the process of being made a law )
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The bill is currently going through Parliament.
a breeze comes through/from etc sth
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The room was hot and no breeze came through the window.
a deal falls through (= does not happen as arranged )
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The cost was simply too high, so the deal fell through.
a deal goes through/ahead (= it happens as arranged )
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It’s 99% certain that the deal will go through.
a phase...going through
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It’s just a phase he’s going through .
a shudder ran/passed/went through sb
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A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.
be cooked through (= in the middle as well as on the outside )
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Fry the fish until golden and cooked through.
be through to/reach the final
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He’s through to the men’s tennis final for the first time.
bluff your way out of/through/past etc sb/sth (= go somewhere or succeed in doing something by deceiving someone )
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I hope we’ll be able to bluff our way past the guard.
breathe through your nose
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Close your eyes and breathe through your nose.
by/through peaceful means
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We must redistribute power in this country by peaceful means.
chomp their way through
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British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.
come/go/pass etc through an entrance
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People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
cut a swathe through
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We cut a swathe through the dense undergrowth.
edge your way into/round/through etc sth
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Christine edged her way round the back of the house.
elbow your way through/past/into etc sth (= move through a group of people by pushing past them )
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He elbowed his way to the bar and ordered a beer.
flick/flip/leaf through the pages of sth (= turn them quickly )
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She was flicking through the pages of a magazine.
get it through to...that
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How can I get it through to him that this is really important?
go through a divorce (= experience getting a divorce )
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I was going through a divorce and it was a very painful time.
go through a gate
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They went through the gate into the orchard.
go through a procedure
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We had to go through the whole procedure again.
go through a process ( also undergo a process formal ) (= experience a process )
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A lot of companies are going through a process of change.
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The system underwent a process of simplification.
go through a stage
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Most young people go through a rebellious stage.
go through an ordeal ( also undergo an ordeal formal ) (= experience something that is very bad or difficult )
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I'd already gone through the ordeal of a divorce once.
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The girl will not have to ungergo the ordeal of giving evidence in court.
go through the hassle of doing sth (= experience the problems of doing something )
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The shirt didn’t fit so I had to go through the hassle of taking it back to the shop.
go through the pain barrier
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Iona reached the final, but she had to go through the pain barrier to get there.
go through the rigmarole of
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I don’t want to go through the rigmarole of taking him to court.
go through/look through/search through drawers (= try to find something by looking in drawers )
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I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
go through/look through/search through drawers (= try to find something by looking in drawers )
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I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
go through/look through/search through drawers (= try to find something by looking in drawers )
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I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
gone through hell
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She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.
go/pass through a cycle
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Advanced economies seem to go through a regular cycle.
go/run through a checklist (= read it to see what still needs doing )
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I’ll just run through the checklist one more time.
just passing through (= travelling through a place )
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We were just passing through and thought we’d drop in to see you.
lead/guide sb through the minefield of sth (= help someone avoid problems )
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Talk to a financial advisor, who can guide you through the minefield of stocks and shares.
lie through your teeth (= say something that is completely untrue )
look straight/right through sb
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I saw Fiona in the street yesterday and she looked straight through me.
look through a book (= look at the pages quickly )
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I looked through the book until I found the right section.
look/go/read through your notes
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I read through my notes before the exam.
munched...way through (= eaten all of )
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They’d munched their way through three packets of biscuits.
nudge your way to/through etc (sth)
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I started to nudge my way to the front of the crowd.
passes...through
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The road passes right through the town centre.
pick your way through a minefield ( also navigate/negotiate a minefield ) (= behave in a careful way to avoid problems in a difficult situation )
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The guide helps you pick your way through the minefield of buying a new car.
pierce a hole in/through sth
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Pierce small holes in the base of the pot with a hot needle.
pulsing through...veins
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She felt the blood pulsing through her veins .
push through reforms (= make them happen )
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He has so far failed to push through much-needed economic reforms.
put a bullet through/in sth
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He threatened to put a bullet through my brain.
put through a call (= transfer or make one )
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She asked the switchboard to put the call through.
relief floods through sb literary
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When she heard he was still alive, relief flooded through her.
right through the middle
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The new road will go right through the middle of the wood.
rummage/rifle through drawers (= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way )
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Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers.
run your fingers through sb’s hair (= touch someone’s hair in a loving way )
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He ran his fingers through her smooth silky hair.
run your fingers through/over/along etc sth
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She ran her fingers through his hair.
scrape through an exam (= only just pass it )
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He managed to scrape through the exam and stay on the course.
see right through me
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I can’t bluff – she’d see right through me .
sent a chill through
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The sound of his dark laugh sent a chill through her.
sent shock waves through
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The child’s murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
shiver ran through (= went through )
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A shiver ran through me.
sift through wreckage (= carefully look through all the pieces )
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Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the plane.
slog your way through/round etc sth
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He started to slog his way up the hill.
soaked through (= completely wet )
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It was raining so hard we were quickly soaked through .
stuck by...through thick and thin
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Jean has stuck by her husband through thick and thin .
stuck together through thick and thin
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Then, families stuck together through thick and thin .
thread running through
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a thread running through the film
through an interpreter (= using an interpreter )
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Speaking through an interpreter , Ahmed said, ‘I’m very worried about my wife and children.’
went through the ritual
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He went through the ritual of lighting his cigar.
went through...contortions
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He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.
wet through (= with every part very wet )
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It never stopped raining and our clothes were wet through.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be shot through with sth
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All the stories were shot through with Hurley's dry, gentle humor.
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fine silk shot through with gold threads
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And his parents' letters were shot through with such worry.
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Many of the women's purity associations were shot through with similar class divisions.
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Statement is shot through with feeling in the long, passionately detailed account of the mutiny.
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This is a genuine kind of knowledge, but it is shot through with subjectivity.
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Unfortunately the timber industry is shot through with economic inefficiency.
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Violence is endemic and Thomson fashions a stylish off-beat thriller which occasionally meanders but is shot through with genuine menace.
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Yet that concept of secular potential was shot through with particular assumptions.
be talking through your hat
bludgeon your way through/to/past etc sb/sth
break through (sth)
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And as Mitchell broke through he was felled by Richard Walker.
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But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
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He admits to usually having a serious look on his face, though an occasional smile breaks through.
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One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast.
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The ability of a new church to break through prejudice is a second, more pragmatic reason for planting churches today.
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The Phillies broke through an inning later against reliever Jim Bruske.
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The students' problems are often of long standing, and it may take a long time to break through.
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Yet the drama and the dramatic personality still insistently break through.
break through (sth)
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And as Mitchell broke through he was felled by Richard Walker.
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But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
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He admits to usually having a serious look on his face, though an occasional smile breaks through.
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One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast.
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The ability of a new church to break through prejudice is a second, more pragmatic reason for planting churches today.
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The Phillies broke through an inning later against reliever Jim Bruske.
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The students' problems are often of long standing, and it may take a long time to break through.
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Yet the drama and the dramatic personality still insistently break through.
by/through force of circumstance(s)
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Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks.
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Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
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Ware was a strict Palladian by upbringing but a stylistic schizoid by force of circumstances.
by/through the agency of sb
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Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters' staff.
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Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.
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Finally, an active regional policy was introduced through the agency of the Board of Trade.
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It is then enforced and upheld by the agencies of the state.
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It operates through the agencies of the different control systems such as the autonomic nervous system, hormonal system, immune system etc.
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Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
by/through trial and error
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They learned to farm the land through trial and error.
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Each individual achieves his own style by trial and error.
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He learned everything just by trial and error.
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I did the tutorial that came with the package deal and learned a lot through trial and error.
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In any case, they were confident these minor bugs could be worked out through trial and error.
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It pointed out that: Everything seems to be done by trial and error.
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Science progresses by trial and error.
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Some had to learn by trial and error.
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These are things we learn by trial and error.
by/through/out of force of habit
carry sb through (sth)
clear (sth through) customs
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They were clear of Customs by 14.30 with twenty miles to go to Ramsgate.
come through (sth)
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Also, the engineers with their bulldozers would come through and scrape it out.
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He writes every week and letters have been coming through.
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In the glimpses I had of her personal life, one feature always came through.
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It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel.
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Part of that comes through design, by assembling the right mixture of players, and part of it comes through luck.
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The dean had a house and car, and had had a wife, until the papers finally came through.
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Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.
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Walker should come through it well enough.
cut a swathe through sth
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Unemployment is cutting a wide swathe through the West.
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
cut a swathe through sth
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
drag sb through the courts
drag sb's name through the mire
drag sb's name through the mud
drive a coach and horses through sth
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But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?
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Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.
fall/slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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One group still fell through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
fight your way (through/past etc sb/sth)
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After fighting his way through all this, he would have to face an angry and almost certainly stark-naked Quigley.
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Bar girls were screaming, and trying to fight their way past us.
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Being fit and healthy is especially important if you have to fight your way out of trouble or run for home.
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Dana fights his way through the protocol surrounding the medicine chest, has a recipe drawn up, and delivers his balm.
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I think also that three other Hearthwares shall come, in case we need to fight our way out of some tight spot.
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Meanwhile, the master had sprung from his position backstage and was fighting his way toward me.
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We will swim through seas of blood, fight our way through lakes of fire, if we are ordered.
flash through sb's mind/head/brain
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Each time I see one of these cocoons hanging from a tree, all of these marvels flash through my mind.
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Her body seemed determined to ignore the danger signals now at last flashing through her brain.
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It flashed through my mind that I was close.
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The image of the guard in his elaborate flowering prison flashes through her head.
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The only idea that flashed through my head was that some one had broken into the house and was attacking Master Yehudi.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds.
force your way through/into etc sth
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Burglars strike: Intruders forced their way into a house which was being renovated.
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He'd schooled himself to ruthlessness, single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle, hacking at anything in his path.
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He has recovered from a nightmare pelvic injury and is now forcing his way into Roker's Wembley plans.
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Jezrael could feel stupid tears forcing their way through her control.
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Smitty went first, forcing his way through the branches that closed in on the trail.
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The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people, holding them down while searching for their savings.
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Then Huddersfield rallied, and the fiery centre-forward Islip forced his way through to beat the tiring Burnley defenders.
get (sb) through sth
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get (sb/sth) through (sth)
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get (sth) through (sth)
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get in through the back door
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
go through (sth)
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through fire (and water) (for sb)
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I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty.
go through sth
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Robin goes through at least two packs of gum a day.
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through the floor
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In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor .
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Last year, sales went through the floor .
go through the mill
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Busiack has been through the mill with these federal investigators.
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Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.
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We went through the mill together, Franklin.
go through the motions (of doing sth)
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But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works.
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Everybody said the right thing; everybody went through the motions the way they should.
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Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
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The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.
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To Harry, Jack looked like a man going through the motions .
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Too many students are going through the motions without any significant engagement in learning.
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We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us.
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You can go through the motions .
go through the roof
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Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof .
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Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof !
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Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.
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And the price is going through the roof .
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He could predict business to go through the roof .
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Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof .
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No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter.
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Sales of those products went through the roof .
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The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.
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They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof .
go through the wringer
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His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer .
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Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringer Thursday.
go through your paces
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At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense.
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Most of the students are satisfied eating and watching Reed go through her paces , with very few questions asked.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The crowd at Colvin Run Mill watched raptly as the nine black company members and their white commander went through their paces .
go through/over sth with a fine-tooth comb
go/run/flash etc through sb's mind
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
have a flick through sth
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Go on, have a flick through.
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Marie's left a load of mags behind, so I pick one up and have a flick through it.
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Sometimes I'd have a flick through.
jump through hoops
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They'll have to jump through a lot of hoops to prove we can trust them.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops.
jump/go through hoops
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We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops .
knock a hole in/through sth
let sth slip (through your fingers)
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And on most of the occasions when they had been alone together he hadn't let a chance slip by.
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As an aside, the parties let it slip that the idea of a true playoff system had been scrapped.
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Attention creates the foreground of consciousness, letting the rest slip into peripheral awareness.
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Be careful lads not to let this one slip away!
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Colin, on the other hand, became discouraged and let things slip .
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He held it up, and let it slip between his fingers.
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The Celtics let this one slip away slowly, painfully and needlessly.
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Wrapped up with visions of kissing Deborah, I had ignored his bedtime rituals and let him slip away.
like a (hot) knife through butter
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Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter.
look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
muscle your way into/through etc sth
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But other alleged triad leaders used violence to muscle their way into the business, according to the police.
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Guliaggi and Norrejo are muscling their way through the mob.
pay through the nose (for sth)
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Many people end up paying through the nose for their car insurance policies.
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But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?
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Catherine, paying through the nose to search for fun and relaxation.
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That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.
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The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.
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They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.
pick your way through/across/among etc sth
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Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.
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I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.
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Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.
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So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.
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The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.
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There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.
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They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.
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We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.
post sth through sb's door/letterbox
put sb through school/college/university
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I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.
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He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.
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He put his kids through college.
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I put my children through college doing it.
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I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.
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Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
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Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.
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The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.
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There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.
put sb through sth
put sb through the mill
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Candidates are put through the mill by the Senate.
put sb/sth through their paces
put sb/sth ↔ through
put sth ↔ through
rake your fingers (through sth)
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He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.
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He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts.
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He raked his fingers through his hair, as if debating what to say next, and she followed the movement.
right along/through/around etc
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Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
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He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
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He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
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He had slept right through the night.
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His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
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I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
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Route 1 runs right through it.
run sb through
run through sth
run through sth
run through sth
see sb through (sth)
see sth through
see sth through a mist of tears
see sth through sb's eyes
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We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it.
see through sb/sth
shoulder your way through/into etc
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Bringing up the rear, Duke shouldered his way into the kitchen.
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But wait, some one is shouldering their way through the crowd.
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Erlich shouldered his way through the crowd and went after her.
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He was curious and, shouldering his way through the crowd, made his way to St Mary Le Bow.
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I went in there, shouldered my way through the crowd.
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Nicolo shouldered his way through the crowd towards the Princess.
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Some surprise managed to shoulder its way into Jenner's turgid writing.
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They looked as though they could shoulder their way through solid rock and beat up a regiment of trolls into the bargain.
sleep through (sth)
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He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.
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He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.
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Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.
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If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?
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Neil got to sleep through it all.
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The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.
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Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.
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We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.
sleep through sth
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He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.
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He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.
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Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.
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If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?
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Neil got to sleep through it all.
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The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.
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Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.
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We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.
slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net.
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Paul Merton slipped through the net.
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.
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This one slipped through the net.
talk sb through sth
talk sth ↔ through
thread your way through/into sth etc
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Even as I write this, the shared facts of our lives continue to thread their way through our flesh.
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He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates.
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I watched her thread her way through the crowd, toward the elevator.
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Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law.
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Rather, the guitar and drum set seem like obbligato instruments, threading their way through the varied and highly imaginative texture.
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The door was held open for him, and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment.
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This time she threaded her way through the high peaks of the Rockies without incident.
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We thread our way through the cemetery, misquoting or humming quietly and almost comforted.
through no fault of her/my etc own
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In my opinion Anna acted more childishly but through no fault of her own.
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So, through no fault of my own, I was at a loose end quite a bit.
through thick and thin
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I'm so grateful to Barb- she's supported me through thick and thin.
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The old pull of party allegiance, support for your party through thick and thin, is fading.
work through sth
work your way through school/college/university etc
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
work your way to/through etc sth
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And national campaign finance reform began to work its way through the U. S. Congress.
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For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda, more administration and finance today than scientific exploration.
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He would stand in the gents' cubicle and work his way through the fantasy, peeing in synchronization with the finale.
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I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy.
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Magistrates are working their way through questioning all the officers who participated in the raid, beginning with the 13 commanders.
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The engine started to sound rough, but she thought it would work its way through and ignored it.
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Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
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We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
work/munch/smoke etc your way through sth
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Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
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He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.
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He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.
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He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
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Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
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We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
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You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.
worm (your way) into/through etc sth
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But you can bring worms into your house, too, and make your kitchen scraps disappear.
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Clive felt delicate feelers worming through his mind, draining his pain, his fear.
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Jess wormed through the crush, at last emerging into daylight.
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Or perhaps you've an idea that you might worm your way into my affections, is that it?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"When will you be away?" "The 17th through the 19th."
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Through the kitchen window, I saw the mailman walking up to the house.
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As the water passes through the filter, dirt is taken out.
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Fill out this form before you pass through customs.
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He bought the tickets through a friend at the stadium.
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Hundreds of working days have been lost this year through illness.
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It was through sheer laziness that we didn't get our flight booked on time.
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It will be several months before your newborn sleeps through the night.
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Janet needed a lot of support to make it through the death of her husband.
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Over the weekend, we took a leisurely drive through the countryside.
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Prices are generally lowest from January through March and highest June through August.
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Rabbits got into the backyard through a hole in the fence.
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Rescue workers searched through the wreckage for survivors.
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The bill's passage through Congress was not a smooth one.
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The bullet had passed through his right arm.
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The Community Association collapsed through lack of support.
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The driver had gone straight through the traffic lights and hit an oncoming car.
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The party continued through the night until dawn.
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The store is open Monday through Saturday.
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The two men fled through the back door and escaped from police.
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be talking through your hat
bludgeon your way through/to/past etc sb/sth
break through (sth)
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And as Mitchell broke through he was felled by Richard Walker.
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But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
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He admits to usually having a serious look on his face, though an occasional smile breaks through.
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One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast.
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The ability of a new church to break through prejudice is a second, more pragmatic reason for planting churches today.
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The Phillies broke through an inning later against reliever Jim Bruske.
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The students' problems are often of long standing, and it may take a long time to break through.
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Yet the drama and the dramatic personality still insistently break through.
break through (sth)
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And as Mitchell broke through he was felled by Richard Walker.
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But the report said few secondary schools advertised at less than £60,000, and primary headships had broken through the £50,000 barrier.
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He admits to usually having a serious look on his face, though an occasional smile breaks through.
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One way of breaking through the barriers you may have put up to appreciating yourself fully is to play Boast.
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The ability of a new church to break through prejudice is a second, more pragmatic reason for planting churches today.
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The Phillies broke through an inning later against reliever Jim Bruske.
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The students' problems are often of long standing, and it may take a long time to break through.
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Yet the drama and the dramatic personality still insistently break through.
by/through force of circumstance(s)
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Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks.
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Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
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Ware was a strict Palladian by upbringing but a stylistic schizoid by force of circumstances.
by/through the agency of sb
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Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters' staff.
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Dubos started from the assumption that all organic matter added to the soil eventually undergoes decomposition through the agency of micro-organisms.
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Finally, an active regional policy was introduced through the agency of the Board of Trade.
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It is then enforced and upheld by the agencies of the state.
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It operates through the agencies of the different control systems such as the autonomic nervous system, hormonal system, immune system etc.
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Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
by/through trial and error
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They learned to farm the land through trial and error.
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Each individual achieves his own style by trial and error.
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He learned everything just by trial and error.
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I did the tutorial that came with the package deal and learned a lot through trial and error.
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In any case, they were confident these minor bugs could be worked out through trial and error.
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It pointed out that: Everything seems to be done by trial and error.
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Science progresses by trial and error.
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Some had to learn by trial and error.
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These are things we learn by trial and error.
by/through/out of force of habit
carry sb through (sth)
clear (sth through) customs
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They were clear of Customs by 14.30 with twenty miles to go to Ramsgate.
come through (sth)
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Also, the engineers with their bulldozers would come through and scrape it out.
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He writes every week and letters have been coming through.
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In the glimpses I had of her personal life, one feature always came through.
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It was about noon when I came through the trees out on to the shingle of the beach with the chapel.
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Part of that comes through design, by assembling the right mixture of players, and part of it comes through luck.
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The dean had a house and car, and had had a wife, until the papers finally came through.
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Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.
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Walker should come through it well enough.
cut a swathe through sth
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Unemployment is cutting a wide swathe through the West.
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
cut a swathe through sth
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They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.
drag sb through the courts
drag sb's name through the mire
drag sb's name through the mud
drive a coach and horses through sth
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But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?
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Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.
fall/slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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One group still fell through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
fight your way (through/past etc sb/sth)
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After fighting his way through all this, he would have to face an angry and almost certainly stark-naked Quigley.
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Bar girls were screaming, and trying to fight their way past us.
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Being fit and healthy is especially important if you have to fight your way out of trouble or run for home.
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Dana fights his way through the protocol surrounding the medicine chest, has a recipe drawn up, and delivers his balm.
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I think also that three other Hearthwares shall come, in case we need to fight our way out of some tight spot.
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Meanwhile, the master had sprung from his position backstage and was fighting his way toward me.
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We will swim through seas of blood, fight our way through lakes of fire, if we are ordered.
flash through sb's mind/head/brain
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Each time I see one of these cocoons hanging from a tree, all of these marvels flash through my mind.
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Her body seemed determined to ignore the danger signals now at last flashing through her brain.
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It flashed through my mind that I was close.
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The image of the guard in his elaborate flowering prison flashes through her head.
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The only idea that flashed through my head was that some one had broken into the house and was attacking Master Yehudi.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds.
force your way through/into etc sth
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Burglars strike: Intruders forced their way into a house which was being renovated.
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He'd schooled himself to ruthlessness, single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle, hacking at anything in his path.
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He has recovered from a nightmare pelvic injury and is now forcing his way into Roker's Wembley plans.
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Jezrael could feel stupid tears forcing their way through her control.
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Smitty went first, forcing his way through the branches that closed in on the trail.
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The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people, holding them down while searching for their savings.
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Then Huddersfield rallied, and the fiery centre-forward Islip forced his way through to beat the tiring Burnley defenders.
get (sb) through sth
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get (sb/sth) through (sth)
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get (sth) through (sth)
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But it's got to pass through this delicate needle.
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Course is three years, get from Intro through Intermediate if yur under nine.
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He had a manual of casual jobs - things like grape-picking, which had got him through the summer.
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He had to get the message through that they must not advance.
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I at least finished out the year, and it was Abigail who got me through it.
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Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.
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Most consumers with private health insurance get it through their employers.
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So I got into it through those channels ....
get in through the back door
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
get through sth
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He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.
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I will never know how I got through that day.
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It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.
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Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.
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Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.
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Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap.
go through (sth)
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through fire (and water) (for sb)
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I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty.
go through sth
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Robin goes through at least two packs of gum a day.
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Carry an old T-shirt to keep you warm and go through those vital stretches we have you last month.
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through sth
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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It seems a man goes through his whole life without knowing any more than he can know at the time.
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It will go through March, April, maybe May.
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Prior to the 1987 stock market crash, the third market went through lean periods.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The research has gone through four phases: 1.
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Very few people can take the pressure that they go through when they build the building.
go through the floor
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In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor .
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Last year, sales went through the floor .
go through the mill
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Busiack has been through the mill with these federal investigators.
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Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.
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We went through the mill together, Franklin.
go through the motions (of doing sth)
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But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works.
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Everybody said the right thing; everybody went through the motions the way they should.
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Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
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The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.
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To Harry, Jack looked like a man going through the motions .
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Too many students are going through the motions without any significant engagement in learning.
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We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us.
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You can go through the motions .
go through the roof
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Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof .
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Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof !
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Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.
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And the price is going through the roof .
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He could predict business to go through the roof .
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Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof .
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No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter.
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Sales of those products went through the roof .
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The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.
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They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof .
go through the wringer
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His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer .
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Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringer Thursday.
go through your paces
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At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense.
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Most of the students are satisfied eating and watching Reed go through her paces , with very few questions asked.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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The crowd at Colvin Run Mill watched raptly as the nine black company members and their white commander went through their paces .
go through/over sth with a fine-tooth comb
go/run/flash etc through sb's mind
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
have a flick through sth
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Go on, have a flick through.
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Marie's left a load of mags behind, so I pick one up and have a flick through it.
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Sometimes I'd have a flick through.
jump through hoops
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They'll have to jump through a lot of hoops to prove we can trust them.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops.
jump/go through hoops
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We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops .
knock a hole in/through sth
let sth slip (through your fingers)
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And on most of the occasions when they had been alone together he hadn't let a chance slip by.
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As an aside, the parties let it slip that the idea of a true playoff system had been scrapped.
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Attention creates the foreground of consciousness, letting the rest slip into peripheral awareness.
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Be careful lads not to let this one slip away!
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Colin, on the other hand, became discouraged and let things slip .
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He held it up, and let it slip between his fingers.
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The Celtics let this one slip away slowly, painfully and needlessly.
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Wrapped up with visions of kissing Deborah, I had ignored his bedtime rituals and let him slip away.
like a (hot) knife through butter
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Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter.
look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
muscle your way into/through etc sth
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But other alleged triad leaders used violence to muscle their way into the business, according to the police.
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Guliaggi and Norrejo are muscling their way through the mob.
pay through the nose (for sth)
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Many people end up paying through the nose for their car insurance policies.
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But all-seaters don't mean all-safe so why should clubs risk bankruptcy and fans pay through the nose for an ill-conceived scheme?
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Catherine, paying through the nose to search for fun and relaxation.
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That doesn't mean you have to pay through the nose for the privilege of an overdraft, however.
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The message is that the government will cut a deal with any threatened industry willing to pay through the nose.
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They run over cross-country courses and pay through the nose for it.
pick your way through/across/among etc sth
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Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.
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I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.
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Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.
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So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.
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The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.
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There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.
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They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.
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We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.
post sth through sb's door/letterbox
put sb through school/college/university
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I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.
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He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.
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He put his kids through college.
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I put my children through college doing it.
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I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.
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Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
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Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.
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The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.
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There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.
put sb through sth
put sb through the mill
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Candidates are put through the mill by the Senate.
put sb/sth through their paces
put sb/sth ↔ through
put sth ↔ through
rake your fingers (through sth)
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He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.
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He raked his fingers through his hair and watched it spring back around his face in untidy tufts.
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He raked his fingers through his hair, as if debating what to say next, and she followed the movement.
right along/through/around etc
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Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
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He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
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He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
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He had slept right through the night.
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His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
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I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
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Route 1 runs right through it.
run sb through
run through sth
run through sth
run through sth
see sb through (sth)
see sth through
see sth through a mist of tears
see sth through sb's eyes
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We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it.
see through sb/sth
shoulder your way through/into etc
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Bringing up the rear, Duke shouldered his way into the kitchen.
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But wait, some one is shouldering their way through the crowd.
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Erlich shouldered his way through the crowd and went after her.
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He was curious and, shouldering his way through the crowd, made his way to St Mary Le Bow.
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I went in there, shouldered my way through the crowd.
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Nicolo shouldered his way through the crowd towards the Princess.
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Some surprise managed to shoulder its way into Jenner's turgid writing.
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They looked as though they could shoulder their way through solid rock and beat up a regiment of trolls into the bargain.
sleep through (sth)
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He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.
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He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.
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Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.
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If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?
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Neil got to sleep through it all.
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The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.
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Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.
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We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.
sleep through sth
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He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.
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He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.
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Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.
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If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?
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Neil got to sleep through it all.
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The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.
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Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.
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We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.
slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net .
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net .
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net .
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Paul Merton slipped through the net .
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net .
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This one slipped through the net .
slip through the net
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Even with the former region's history of testing in primaries, children continue to slip through the net.
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Graham, on the other hand, had nearly slipped through the net.
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In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing.
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No one knows how many have slipped through the net.
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Paul Merton slipped through the net.
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Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net.
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This one slipped through the net.
talk sb through sth
talk sth ↔ through
thread your way through/into sth etc
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Even as I write this, the shared facts of our lives continue to thread their way through our flesh.
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He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates.
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I watched her thread her way through the crowd, toward the elevator.
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Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law.
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Rather, the guitar and drum set seem like obbligato instruments, threading their way through the varied and highly imaginative texture.
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The door was held open for him, and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment.
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This time she threaded her way through the high peaks of the Rockies without incident.
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We thread our way through the cemetery, misquoting or humming quietly and almost comforted.
through no fault of her/my etc own
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In my opinion Anna acted more childishly but through no fault of her own.
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So, through no fault of my own, I was at a loose end quite a bit.
through thick and thin
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I'm so grateful to Barb- she's supported me through thick and thin.
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The old pull of party allegiance, support for your party through thick and thin, is fading.
work through sth
work your way through school/college/university etc
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
work your way to/through etc sth
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And national campaign finance reform began to work its way through the U. S. Congress.
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For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda, more administration and finance today than scientific exploration.
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He would stand in the gents' cubicle and work his way through the fantasy, peeing in synchronization with the finale.
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I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy.
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Magistrates are working their way through questioning all the officers who participated in the raid, beginning with the 13 commanders.
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The engine started to sound rough, but she thought it would work its way through and ignored it.
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Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
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We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
work/munch/smoke etc your way through sth
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Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
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He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.
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He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.
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He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
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Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
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We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
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You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.
worm (your way) into/through etc sth
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But you can bring worms into your house, too, and make your kitchen scraps disappear.
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Clive felt delicate feelers worming through his mind, draining his pain, his fear.
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Jess wormed through the crush, at last emerging into daylight.
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Or perhaps you've an idea that you might worm your way into my affections, is that it?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After eight minutes Thompson caught the Middlesbrough defence square with a through ball.
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He said the new 16.52 Middlesbrough to Darlington service was in fact a through train to Bishop Auckland.
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It dripped like a slow percolation through limestone, so slow that she forgot it between drops.
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The main door stood wide open making a through draught.
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There is now a through route underground between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave but only for brave men.
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Until 1987 there were two separate train ferry operations for through freight traffic between Britain and the continent, Dover-Dunkerque and Harwich-Zeebrugge.