Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] his [noun sg] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 5 | Before the Burford constable could reply , Detective Eddy was pushing his way through the crowd and Constable Aplin hurried after him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Grandson Richard was shoving his way through the pushing , shouting mass of humans , but it was hard going . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) … ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A bespectacled street-photographer was working his way through the crowd , trying to persuade them to have their pictures taken . |
| 12 | He was working his way through his food with astonishing speed . |