Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In real terms , UK consumer borrowing has been falling through the period of the recession , in contrast to the experience at the beginning of the last decade when credit was deregulated . |
| 2 | The rate of failures has been declining through the 1980s and the last time it was running at these levels was 1984 , when 3,924 businesses failed . |
| 3 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 4 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 5 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 6 | But for that mole in the Securitate they would have been dawdling through the hills on their own . |
| 7 | These words from Flower of Scotland will no doubt have been running through the head of Dick Best as he flew home to London yesterday . |
| 8 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 9 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 10 | Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
| 16 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been looking through the cuttings on the inquest again , and she was identified by an aunt who lived in Herefordshire . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been glancing through the teams , Peter , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 20 | What 's the going going to be like tonight because all the snow 's disappeared and in fact you 've been running through the snow anyway . |
| 21 | The sights and sounds of a Red Indian Reservation have been reverberating through the pastoral tranquility of Gloucestershire . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |
| 23 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 24 | That weapon 's yet to be found and police have been searching through the gardens of nearby houses and lifting drains in the surrounding area looking for the knife . |
| 25 | The catechumens and candidates have been going through the process known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ( R.C.I.A. ) and in his sermon Bishop Brewer gave an outline of the R.C.I.A. 's activities from its foundation after the Second Vatican Council in 1972 to the present . |
| 26 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 27 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 28 | Henry 's been going through the old ledgers but can not find any sign of a fiddle . |
| 29 | Erm , it 's a very long term thing , and John 's been working through the tenants ' action group on it so I personally do n't know what , what the kind of take up is on that , er |