Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 2 | Care in the community is a new national policy for dealing with the mentally ill , following the closure of psychiatric hospitals , but many former patients are apparently falling through the net . |
| 3 | Because if you if you if that 's all it is then you 're just going through the motions , you 're not actually going ahead and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 4 | We 're just going through the motions . ’ |
| 5 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 6 | So I mean , we 're just going through the motions at the moment , I mean , quite hone |
| 7 | They 've sacrificed some of their originality for a more ‘ contemporary ’ sound , yet it 's encouraging that they show such willingness to innovate — even if it does sound as if they 're still stumbling through the undergrowth . |
| 8 | They 're almost going through the floor , but it 's not making the slightest difference . ’ |
| 9 | And we had better do it quickly , because the trees and clumps are rapidly disappearing through the ravages of storms and neglect . |
| 10 | Nearly 35 years after the first lawsuit , arguments over responsibility and compensation for Minamata are still ploughing through the Japanese courts . |
| 11 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |
| 12 | Let us talk about reductions in corporation tax , which are still feeding through the economy and will be worth £1 billion to industry in the next year . |
| 13 | Your Team has been invaluable in providing psychological as well as practical support for these patients which have been grossly lacking through the conventional channels . |
| 14 | And the first students and trainees are now coming through the system with the new qualifications . |
| 15 | These texts were often inscribed on woodwork which had formed part of the old rood screens , reredoses , and triptychs ; this was the case at Binham Priory in Norfolk , where the medieval paintings of saints are now showing through the worn whitewash and black-letter Protestant text . |
| 16 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 17 | I suddenly realise that we are attacking the enemy positions and we are now running through the trees . |
| 18 | The receivers are now going through the books of his company A F Budge , of Retford , Notts . |
| 19 | And I 'm just , I 'm , I 'm just going through the thing and writing out different points for each thing . |
| 20 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 21 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 22 | " It almost looks as though they were just going through the cupboards , examining the stuff , as it were , the plainclothes man said . |
| 23 | Iceland is one of the youngest islands in the world : when the first primates were already clambering through the African jungles , a cataclysmic volcanic eruption of part of the mid-Atlantic fault line brought a whole new land-mass into being . |
| 24 | Most people , I noticed , even experienced naturalists , were forever striding through the undergrowth , striking out across the fields , and searching , searching for something new . |
| 25 | That had been a long , long time ago and we were still reeling through the London streets with never a sign of a park anywhere . |
| 26 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 27 | yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than |
| 28 | The bill for the damage when the Amoco Cadiz foundered off the coast of Brittany , before the compensation fund was set up , is still grinding through the courts , 12 years on . |
| 29 | It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work . |
| 30 | That may seem to trivialise the intentions of the working party which is now sifting through the comments that have already been submitted to it ( and , although the deadline passed on 30 April , it is still interested in receiving any others sent in as soon as possible ) . |