Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 2 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 3 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 4 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the LEAs were expanding their provision through a diversified range of courses of ‘ instruction ’ in practical skills , many of which were provided for occupational qualifications at ‘ night schools ’ or evening institutes . |
| 6 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 7 | Later , as they were making their way through the bracken , Anna said casually , ‘ Sam told me that you 're leaving your job with Luke . ’ |
| 8 | If Florence Nightingale were carrying her lamp through the corridors of the National Health Service today , she would almost certainly be searching for the people in charge . |
| 9 | Alex had spilled some juice on the table top and was drawing his finger through the orange puddle with enjoyment ; Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast . |
| 10 | Beginning at Sheffield University on January 31 , the tour was to weave its way through nineteen ( mainly university ) dates before finishing triumphantly at Manchester 's ultra-prestigious Free Trade Hall on February 13 . |
| 11 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 12 | A garage owner , Colin Forbes , 45 , from Aultbea , told the trial at Dingwall Sheriff Court yesterday that he was driving his lorry through Poolewe at about 10:45pm on 13 July when he saw Ballantine 's Volvo come up behind him . |
| 13 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
| 14 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 15 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 16 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 17 | Before the Burford constable could reply , Detective Eddy was pushing his way through the crowd and Constable Aplin hurried after him . |
| 18 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 19 | A peaked cap was cutting its way through the crowd towards me and I recognized the Feldwebel . |
| 20 | Robert Walker , a soldier in uniform , was fighting his way through the crowd , a bunch of flowers and a marriage licence in his hand , wading against the human tide to the shining spot under the clock where Judy Garland stood , dressed in angelic white that stood out against the drab extras , waiting anxiously . |
| 21 | Soon , the craft was making its way through the darkness over twenty-foot waves and taking on water . |
| 22 | While she was munching her way through her third chocolate bar , Henry took the chicken through to the scullery and carefully anointed its breast with the thallium . |
| 23 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 24 | After the performance , while the pageant was swilling its way through mud , finding out the boulders that had sunk deep into the roadways , Gabriel would sit with Lucie and Izzie in the smallest wagon of all , the kitchen wagon . |
| 25 | Grandson Richard was shoving his way through the pushing , shouting mass of humans , but it was hard going . |
| 26 | She 'd found some hawthorn berries on a bush and was chewing her way through one with every sign of enjoyment . |
| 27 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 28 | José was a porter-cum-chauffeur at the delightful Stanford Park Hotel where we were staying and , like most of the staff , was working his way through college ( you could order your breakfast in Latin ) … ) |
| 29 | Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard . |
| 30 | A bespectacled street-photographer was working his way through the crowd , trying to persuade them to have their pictures taken . |