Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] going through " in BNC.

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1 The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again .
2 The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces .
3 The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities .
4 What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again .
5 She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles .
6 I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down .
7 Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ .
8 His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check .
9 Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back .
10 His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period .
11 Janie 's distraught mother Angela Darling explained what had been going through her mind during the case :
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