Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 2 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 3 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 4 | Wonderfully neat in their red and black practice clothes , they had gone through the rigours of a simplified ballet barre ( with varying degrees of stoicism ) , a mime sequence ( much enthusiasm ) and foot-stretching exercises ( giggles and pretend moans ) . |
| 5 | We recognized that they had gone through troublous times before . |
| 6 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 7 | This caused some confusion in the grandstands as most spectators did not realise that they had gone through Kyle and O'Grady . |
| 8 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |
| 9 | Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah . |
| 10 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 11 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 12 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 13 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 14 | She had met Greg at a film-club meeting , where they had laughed through a leaden documentary on Cuba . |
| 15 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 16 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 17 | By the time they had sat through two party political broadcasts and Chris Patten in TV evangelist mode , they could not stand up fast enough when the Prime Minister finally appeared . |
| 18 | They had splashed through two brooks and wandered fearfully in the deep woodlands west of Ecchinswell . |
| 19 | Carp refused to accept a bait mounted directly on strong tackle because they had learned through the experience of being caught that dangerous ( hooked ) baits behaved differently from those that were not dangerous ( free , unattached baits ) . |
| 20 | In Charlie 's loft , they had talked through the night about the sickness money brings , the violence and fear that money brings , the corruption money brings , and all along the real subject was not fear or corruption or violence , but money . |
| 21 | She sat back , closing her eyes , incapable of coherent thought , and then , so slowly that she found herself holding her breath , a tiny spark kindled inside : they had talked through a tangle of mistakes , yet somewhere in it there was something else . |
| 22 | The garages shut up and helped people to restart their cars after they had stalled through a flood . |
| 23 | They had proceeded through childhood and into their adolescence just like a thousand and one other families in the community . |
| 24 | They had passed through the blackest part of the valley now and it was a relief to see a light or two at Weem , and across the invisible river at Aberfeldy . |
| 25 | I observed a small yellow patch in the centre of one fish in a shoal of Neon Tetras some weeks after they had passed through quarantine . |
| 26 | Ten minutes later , they had passed through the kilometre-thick crust of the moon via Moloch 's Pit , and were moving once more into the human-designed areas of the base . |
| 27 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 28 | They had passed through Arundel and were coming over the ridge at Whiteways Lodge roundabout , heading for Petworth and then the A3 at Milford . |
| 29 | Behind the glass cabinet doors , Belinda glimpsed rows of neatly labelled spice jars and piles of elegant crockery — all the pride and delight of the housekeeper Mrs Porter , evidently — then they had passed through the kitchen and into an enclosed section of veranda where the hardwood floor gave way to squares of woven sea-grass matting . |
| 30 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |