Example sentences of "were going through " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 2 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 3 | As we were going through Freemans Channel the pod baulked , refusing to move . |
| 4 | My boyfriend and I were going through a very rough patch at the time . |
| 5 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 6 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 7 | Yesterday 14-year-old Johanna 's mother and father were going through a double agony . |
| 8 | Now they were going through another door and into a different kind of room , and this room caused the child to stop and slowly look about her . |
| 9 | It kept him occupied and brought a bit of money in , but not much , because fairs were going through a lean patch , too . |
| 10 | Till eventually I mean you ere doing it with these As you were going through here you were n't looking at this table you were working some of them out you were saying , Oh that 'll be a double positive that 'll be a double double negative these 'll go together . |
| 11 | Familiar names were going through Riven 's mind as he tried to tie in what was real in this Minginish and what was in his stories . |
| 12 | In the circumstances they could hardly refuse our request for a special audit — indeed , they appeared to welcome it , saying that although they were going through a difficult time they had nothing to hide , and were confident that the bank would wish to continue its support . " |
| 13 | And there were a few things that you mentioned as you were going through that a you know I just really want to make a few comments on really . |
| 14 | Erm I did n't write down the other things that you mentioned as we were going through that were n't on this list . |
| 15 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 16 | I know that , because Gran said so once , when we were going through an atlas together . |
| 17 | All kinds of questions were going through my mind ; How many people would be working there ? |
| 18 | The press gave the impression that governors were going through a series of complicated changes and that new puzzles and ambiguities about their powers were being constantly revealed . |
| 19 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 20 | All I could do was keep dropping hints , trying to get it through to you that we were going through something incredible together . ’ |
| 21 | County are one of only two sides that have put four goals past Town this season … but when they lost just before Christmas they were going through their worst patch of the season … |
| 22 | The comic TV rivals otherwise double act Flying Thing ( Russ Edwards and Sam Heald ) were going through their routine for tonight 's show at the Unity Theatre as part of the Liverpool Festival of Comedy . |
| 23 | ‘ Middlesbrough were going through a bad patch at the time . |
| 24 | Consumers were going through a period of retrenchment after the boom years of the 1980s . |
| 25 | Mr Gutteridge , whose Mentorn Production Company produces Anneka 's programmes , separated from his wife Jilly shortly after Anneka and Nick admitted in a statement issued through their lawyers that they were going through a ‘ difficult time ’ in October 1991 . |
| 26 | I were going through one of them a week ! |
| 27 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 28 | Er what made me smile when they found out that the salt were going through these er motorway bridges and attacking the steel work in the concrete with all sort of powers that they would of known that would n't ya ? |
| 29 | Did you se , the advert with er Ronnie Barker talking to that other feller and he says oh aye he says we were going through a really bad patch me and the wife who went to marriage guidance and Ronnie Barker says oh did it do you any good ? |
| 30 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |