Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 2 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been glancing through the teams , Peter , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 6 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 8 | Even though I 've been shopping through France |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been crawling through my barbed wire ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 15 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 16 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | So far on this journey , except for a moment at Mahanaim , we have been travelling through country we know or can imagine . |
| 19 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 20 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 23 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 24 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 25 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 26 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |