Example sentences of "[verb] [been] through a " in BNC.

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1 She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again .
2 Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen .
3 He added : ‘ If anyone has been through a traumatic experience , it takes a long time to unwind .
4 A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal .
5 Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports .
6 Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation .
7 Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already .
8 A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat .
9 That poor girl has been through a terrible ordeal , and if I know anything of gipsies , it 's not over for her yet . ’
10 Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
11 Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’
12 ‘ She has been through an awful lot , ’ says Ann .
13 The new educational framework , which has been through an extensive consultation process with practice committees and the Regions , will replace the current Member Part 1 and 11 examinations and will be phased in from September next year .
14 I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share .
15 Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer .
16 Although all staff will have been through a thorough central basic training course ( see Chapter 6 ) much additional training and supervision is still needed back in the bureau .
17 Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now .
18 It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery .
19 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 .
20 Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her .
21 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 .
22 Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer .
23 When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender .
24 She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke .
25 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 .
26 On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof .
27 Right now the relationship 's good ; he 's like an old friend , we 've been through a lot of shit together . ’
28 ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it .
29 But it probably helped our friendship , because we 've been through a lot since then .
30 Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings .
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