Example sentences of "he [verb] be [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 4 | As the sun came up and he was able to make out the grassy track along which he had been striding through the night he realised that once again he had missed the verderers , that there were no fresh hoof-marks . |
| 5 | 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 . |