Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 2 | Old Fishfinger has been flicking through More magazine which , of course , he only reads for the fishkeeping tips , and has discovered the questionnaires that they print . |
| 3 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 4 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 5 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 6 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 7 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 8 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 10 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 11 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |