Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been glancing through the teams , Peter , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been crawling through my barbed wire ! ’ |
| 5 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 6 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 7 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 9 | Even though I 've been shopping through France |
| 10 | What 's the going going to be like tonight because all the snow 's disappeared and in fact you 've been running through the snow anyway . |
| 11 | The sights and sounds of a Red Indian Reservation have been reverberating through the pastoral tranquility of Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |
| 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 have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 16 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 21 | Apart from the CDs I have already reviewed , I have been playing through others in the series to get things into perspective and to try and plot the diverse range of Liszt 's output which has so far been performed and recorded with such remarkable consistency . |
| 22 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 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 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 27 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 28 | According to the Crewe Programme , the Youth have been going through a rocky period . |
| 29 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |