Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] through [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has been stalking through millennia intent |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Therefore the proportion of households headed by a married couple has been decreasing through time — it was 74 per cent in 1971 , 70 per cent in 1981 , and is expected to be only about 55 per cent in 2001 in England and Wales ( Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 4 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 5 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 6 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 7 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 10 | Even though I 've been shopping through France |
| 11 | Talent scouts scour China for potential circus performers … many of these artists have been leaping through hoops since they were six years old . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 15 | 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 . |