Example sentences of "she was [verb] through the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 2 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 3 | She had experienced the ecstasy , and now she was living through the agony . |
| 4 | It was as she was passing through the drawing-room that she paused for a moment to glance round admiringly at the décor . |
| 5 | It was one of wistful regret rather than fretful anxiety and had taken her to her daughter 's bedroom , where she was sorting through the show-jumping rosettes Samantha had accumulated during her hippomanic early teens . |
| 6 | On one occasion she was chased through the streets by a car full of excited young Arabs . |
| 7 | She hated anyone to watch her when she was going through the bins . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A few minutes later she was hurrying through the sombre squares and lanes . |
| 10 | She was peering through the bars of the cage , making sucking noises . |
| 11 | No , Sabine Jourdain fell among thieves while she was walking through the harbour . |
| 12 | One of the happiest moments in her life occurred when she was walking through the compound at Usher . |
| 13 | Shortly after breakfast Fabia nosed her Volkswagen Polo in the direction of that other spa town and fifty minutes later she was walking through the spa park with its trees , benches and bandstand . |
| 14 | Voluptuous yet vulnerable , she was put through the studio 's star-grooming routine from which she emerged as the screen phenomenon known to the world as Marilyn Monroe . |
| 15 | She said she was 18 when she was put through the ‘ terrifying ’ ordeal by two women officers . |
| 16 | She was arrested five years ago by a Cairo narcotics squad who found £3m worth of heroin hidden in a concealed compartment of an ornamental wooden elephant she was carrying through the capital 's airport . |