Example sentences of "was going [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going through the figures . |
| 2 | Rella was going through the bins . |
| 3 | She hated anyone to watch her when she was going through the bins . |
| 4 | When Mrs Thatcher came to power in May 1979 , union power was at its height and British industry was going through the crippling after effects of the winter of discontent |
| 5 | As Martin Walker says : ‘ The Oxford of the late Sixties was going through the heady delights of the sexual revolution . |
| 6 | and er when I was going through the change and I 'm post menopause er and having terrible feelings , I 'd nowhere to go ! |
| 7 | The splendour of the room never failed to unsettle him , and the fact that everyone else was going through the same series of salutations did nothing to make him feel more comfortable . |
| 8 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 9 | ‘ I was going through the reports , trying to size up Matthew Glynn — what made him tick . |
| 10 | I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East . |
| 11 | Before the 1974 election , the Consumer Credit Bill was going through the House . |
| 12 | Owen was going through the accounts with Nikos trying to find pockets of money which might still be emptied . |
| 13 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 14 | Just one more thing that may have been mentioned yesterday when Jess was going through the legal and underwriting session , this applies to both Covermaster and living assurance . |
| 15 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 16 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 17 | Oh I know what I was gon na quickly go through the , I was going through the training was n't I ? |
| 18 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 20 | He had tried to give up and was going over the problems he 'd come across and continued : |
| 21 | Already Lavender 's scheming mind was going over the possibilities that this water-jug job had opened up for her . |
| 22 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 23 | Patriotism was all very well , but she felt this was going over the top . |
| 24 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 25 | Tom Tedder and Corbett Farraday were muttering by the door which led into the main school ; the headmaster , towering yet crumpled , was surrounded by a little group of teachers in the centre of his hall ; and by the door leading to the boarding quarters Mrs Crumwallis was going over the events of the night before with her cook , Mrs Garfitt . |
| 26 | She 's used you before , to get her stuff back , to establish an alibi for when Jack was going over the wall . |
| 27 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 28 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 29 | when I was going onto the roofing that was Saturday before the Monday , he says we should |
| 30 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |