Example sentences of "he had [been] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 2 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
| 3 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the end of that time , working ceaselessly , he had been through every file in every office . |
| 6 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 7 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 8 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 9 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 10 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 11 | He had been through college , and yet , he reflected , he was still ignorant of the continent to the north . |
| 12 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 13 | He had been through the Night of Power . |
| 14 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |