Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you are seeing through sun ’ , |
| 2 | WORRIED health chiefs are trawling through hundreds of medical records trying to track down Ulster patients treated by a doctor who died of AIDS . |
| 3 | But for that mole in the Securitate they would have been dawdling through the hills on their own . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 5 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 6 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 7 | Picture a beautiful scene — whatever kind of landscape pleases you the most — and imagine that you are walking through that place . |
| 8 | This can be especially useful if you are walking through an area with plenty of ground cover where you could lose sight of the dog . |
| 9 | They are walking through the space station . |
| 10 | Fighting continues in many parts , and large numbers of people , especially children , are dying through lack of food and water . |
| 11 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 12 | They had been driving through Wales , to the sea , and Carrie had turned off the main road into a narrow valley and said , this was where she and Uncle Nick had lived for a while in the war , would they like to stop the night and see ? |
| 13 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 14 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 15 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 16 | Clark had a bad back — arthritis — and in one scene they are driving through the crowd going to the rodeo . |
| 17 | We are driving through parts of Brixton that look like they 've never seen daylight . |
| 18 | On the contrary they are being wiped out as the loggers introduce new diseases , alcohol and guns along with the roads they are driving through the rainforest . |
| 19 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 20 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 22 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 23 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 24 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 25 | Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict . |
| 26 | This definition should be understood as the choreographer 's ability to establish a style of movement through which the audience will feel and understand what the performers are communicating through a particular way of dancing . |
| 27 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 28 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 29 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 30 | They are looking through the directory board in the foyer of the RCA building , reading aloud to each other all the names of firms they find ridiculous ( ‘ How about this ? |