Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Doctor 's companion , the woman and the android were walking through the dark corridors of the castle , trying to find some means of escape . |
| 2 | Women in headscarves were sifting through the untidy muddle like rescue workers scrabbling in rubble for survivors while children stood by , waiting for the emergence of something to look at . |
| 3 | Buttercups , daisies , cranesbill , the red purple of clover , all were pushing through the new grass of the meadows . |
| 4 | Two NCO drivers from the Field Ambulance were passing through the assembled ranks selling chocolates , buns and cold drinks . |
| 5 | Maggie was kneading currants through dough in a glass bowl on the sideboard , as absorbed in the kneading as if all of her life were passing through the pale dough . |
| 6 | Now they were racing through the inner-city suburbs on slick rails . |
| 7 | He waited until we were browsing through the chilled fish before raising the issue : ‘ Do you really think that Old Mother Walsh 's snake is actually going to wriggle down Wimbledon High Street when the time comes ? ’ |
| 8 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 9 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 10 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 11 | Other mandarins in bright silk gowns , booted and bonneted like Tran Van Hieu , were hurrying through the ornamental gardens towards the palace . |
| 12 | I think the moon must have got up and a few silvery shafts were getting through the small fanlight . |
| 13 | Rays from the rising sun were shining through the thick undergrowth of the jungle as we drove past . |
| 14 | The Tree Spirits of the ancient Wolfwood were awake and they were creeping through the darkening forest towards them . |
| 15 | They were streaming through the connecting door , muttering discontentedly and clutching their books and papers as they looked hopelessly around for somewhere to sit . |
| 16 | Furthermore the wind had dropped , the sun shone brilliantly over the ice , and already , early in the morning , small boys were sliding through the radiant air , whooping and hallooing , and sending broken boughs skidding across the frozen surface with a hollow , reverberating whoosh . |
| 17 | It was tumbling through the black curtain . |
| 18 | Rex was rooting through the slumbering cabby 's pockets . |
| 19 | With a south-westerly wind filling her sails , Seawitch was slicing through the sparkling waves like a hot knife through butter . |
| 20 | George was sifting through the snapshot-sized photographs Maxim had taken identifying portraits of several people concerned with Resistance or Intelligence and mostly now dead . |
| 21 | The worst part was wrestling through the urban traffic , knowing that it was coming up to sailing time . |
| 22 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 23 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 24 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 25 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 26 | But Rosie was pushing through the roaring crowd , she was only feet away . |
| 27 | She looked round to where her sister was searching through the other books . |
| 28 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 29 | Moments later , with no thought for his own safety , he was hurrying through the smoke-filled corridors at a limping run . |
| 30 | A few minutes later she was hurrying through the sombre squares and lanes . |