Example sentences of "been [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for that mole in the Securitate they would have been dawdling through the hills on their own . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 3 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 8 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 9 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 10 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 12 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 13 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 18 | The sights and sounds of a Red Indian Reservation have been reverberating through the pastoral tranquility of Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | That weapon 's yet to be found and police have been searching through the gardens of nearby houses and lifting drains in the surrounding area looking for the knife . |
| 20 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 21 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 22 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 23 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 24 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 25 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 26 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 27 | Many people become biologists and doctors by a reaction against things mechanical and mathematical and contrariwise engineering has been going through a phase of rejecting natural materials . |
| 28 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 29 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 30 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |