Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] her [noun sg] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd found some hawthorn berries on a bush and was chewing her way through one with every sign of enjoyment . |