Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 2 | The Guildsmen were wading through the audience , overturning benches and chasing children away with the backs of their hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Men were struggling through the crowd in the street , a ladder between them . |
| 5 | A day later , we were struggling through the runnels and alleyways of that city . |
| 6 | If you pay for the glasses yourself , you ca n't apply for a refund afterwards ( even if you were entitled to a voucher ) unless they were prescribed through the Hospital Eye Service . |
| 7 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 8 | She had no doubt they would come — she had had lots of inquiries from her last advertisement in the local paper — but in the meantime all the bills were thumping through the letter-box and Great-Aunt Alicia 's legacy was beginning to melt terrifyingly . |
| 9 | Balance of payments crises were registered through the balance of short-term assets and liabilities ; and a number of critics , then as now , fastened on the level of overseas military expenditure which in international terms was disproportionately high in relation to national income . |
| 10 | Before long we were speeding through the night towards Joyce 's Country , County Galway . |
| 11 | Even Sean 's obvious appreciation of her had served mainly to boost her confidence as to how she would look in that other man 's eyes , if by some absolute miracle they should meet him for a moment as they were driving through the grounds of Millfield House . |
| 12 | The noise was a foul but apt accompaniment to the schooner 's fitful motion for , with her wheel lashed and her sails only half trimmed , Wavebreaker was bridling and jerking into the short hard seas that were driving through the North-East Providence Channel . |
| 13 | They were driving through the suburbs in the valley far below the ancient hill settlement forming the historic core of the city . |
| 14 | ‘ On our first date we were driving through the countryside when we spotted some sheep out in a field . |
| 15 | Hands still bound behind their backs , they were hustled through the gateway . |
| 16 | Behind them torches were bobbing through the night . |
| 17 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 18 | As they crossed the broad reach of the Spree at Elsenstrasse , where tugs were crunching through the ice , Erika pointed out what sights there were to see but Karl merely gave a perfunctory nod and returned to his absorbed stare through his window . |
| 19 | The doughs were come through the machine cut into sizes certain weights moulded and the men put them in tins . |
| 20 | With Mario , you felt that if you were walking through the wilds and a bear came bellowing from behind a tree , Mario would seize its paw , shake it vigorously and tell it a good story . |
| 21 | Flora and I were walking through the palm grove , on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley . |
| 22 | They were walking through the village . |
| 23 | We were walking through the forest . |
| 24 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 25 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 26 | Conservative Members — with a few honourable exceptions — were dragooned through the Division Lobby by the Government Whips . |
| 27 | ‘ Sanitation parades ’ forced the message home , in which giant models of the house fly were paraded through the streets dragging empty prams , symbolising the fly 's lethal effect on babies . |
| 28 | While the Conference met , high spring tides were oozing through the paving of the Piazza San Marco . |
| 29 | The thin light was casting curious shadows everywhere now , and Lugh blinked and rubbed his eyes , because just for a moment it had seemed that figures were appearing through the mists ahead of him . |
| 30 | Women in headscarves were sifting through the untidy muddle like rescue workers scrabbling in rubble for survivors while children stood by , waiting for the emergence of something to look at . |