Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] through the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood .
2 Seated in the tube train , she felt as if she were thundering through the earth in a time-capsule , guided by a power greater than herself , without real roots or destination .
3 However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post .
4 She had experienced the ecstasy , and now she was living through the agony .
5 It was as she was passing through the drawing-room that she paused for a moment to glance round admiringly at the décor .
6 It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens .
7 Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand .
8 One of the happiest moments in her life occurred when she was walking through the compound at Usher .
9 No , Sabine Jourdain fell among thieves while she was walking through the harbour .
10 Voluptuous yet vulnerable , she was put through the studio 's star-grooming routine from which she emerged as the screen phenomenon known to the world as Marilyn Monroe .
11 She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport .
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