Example sentences of "[noun] had been through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 2 | Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war . |
| 3 | Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her . |
| 4 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 5 | A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place . |
| 6 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 7 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 8 | Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ . |
| 9 | All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera . |
| 10 | The poor darling had been through a lot and could n't be expected to … well , she was sure Melissa would understand how he must be feeling . |
| 11 | Hendry had been through sweet and sour on the weekend . |
| 12 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 13 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 14 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 15 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 16 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 17 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 18 | He admitted that he and Hillary had been through marriage difficulties , but insisted ( helped by some Hollywood training ) that they are now deeply in love . |
| 19 | The late Derek Cross had been through the tunnel on the footplate of an A3 Pacific and a Class 40 diesel and on both occasions he had been very pleased to see the other end of the tunnel , such is its evil , brooding , emotive reputation . |
| 20 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |