Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 31 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
| 32 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 33 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 34 | I remember when I was cycling through Normandy and along the Loire valley a couple of years back , I stopped at Chartres and went into the cathedral . |
| 35 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 36 | ‘ I was flicking through a couple of magazines at that last place . ’ |
| 37 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 38 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 39 | One evening as I was walking through the village , I heard a voice coming from the gable end of a cottage , ‘ Bonsoir , Monsieur . |
| 40 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 41 | I was walking through a busy suburb one evening with my girlfriend Jo . |
| 42 | I was walking through a Wirral village and decided to have a soft drink in a pub to cool off . |
| 43 | Well I knew , when I was in , when we were at Donnington , living at Donnington , a couple of blokes I 've known there 's company sergeant majors and regimental sergeant majors in the Signals , I was walking through shed four , one day , I was doing , doing some mucking about with these folding boats for the RE 's |
| 44 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
| 45 | Do n't go in there and that could have gone down my whole body as I was walking through everything keeps falling off . |
| 46 | I was driving through the warren of small , mean , shop-lined streets towards St George 's Circus where Lambeth Road meets Blackfriars Road , leading to the bridge . |
| 47 | So that when , later that summer , I was driving through Highburn I paused in anticipation outside the Bailes farm . |
| 48 | I was driving through what , eighteen inches of water . |
| 49 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 50 | I was browsing through a carp baits catalogue and came out of the experience dazed and amazed . |
| 51 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 52 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |
| 53 | I had n't let myself stop and think about it , but I knew there was something very wrong with me , and although I was n't depressed exactly , I was going through hell . |
| 54 | I was going through the figures . |
| 55 | I was going through a military zone towards the Tenezrouft route and Mali . |
| 56 | ‘ I met him six years ago , as I was going through my divorce , ’ Miss Dale said yesterday . |
| 57 | One night , when I was going through a particularly troubled time , I awoke from restless , turbulent dreams , and , half-waking , had the sense of a woman sitting by my bed , watching over me . |
| 58 | I can well believe that at home I was going through some such process for many years before I became anorexic , as well as during the course of the disease itself . |
| 59 | Initially , Wendy received six-monthly inseminations , but she felt ill-at-ease : ‘ They were always done so impersonally and I was going through such an emotional , personal experience . ’ |
| 60 | At one time I was going through two grams a day . |