Example sentences of "[verb] [be] through [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 2 | Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses . |
| 3 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 4 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 5 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 6 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 7 | having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary . |
| 8 | The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance . |
| 9 | Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell . |
| 10 | The pair , both 25 , have been through two days of hell — and team-mates fear the nightmare may have damaged their medal chances . |
| 11 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 12 | Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix . |