Example sentences of "which [verb] pass through " in BNC.

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1 Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close .
2 Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach .
3 And he began to think within himself what had happened , and of that breath which had passed through him , and how the leper was not there .
4 The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS .
5 Still hot , and completing its thermosetting process , the GRP rod continues on its way along the length of the machine in the company of another 24 or so rods which have passed through a parallel course .
6 Carefully thought out , it lists all of Leger 's exhibitions , but , more importantly , reproduces in colour a large selection of the finest paintings which have passed through their hands .
7 From 24 June to 24 July Leger are celebrating their centenary with an exhibition of works by Samuel Palmer from public and private collections , all of which have passed through Leger since the 1930s .
8 " The world little knows " , wrote Faraday , " how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy ; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions , the hopes , the wishes , the preliminary conclusions have been realized . "
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