Example sentences of "had [adv] be through " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 2 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 3 | Normally this could be kept under close observation and could clear up of its own accord in optimum conditions , but as these fish had already been through so much , I decided to treat then with herbs . |
| 4 | Archie had already been through every drawer in the tallboy . |
| 5 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 6 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 7 | As most of the leading American challengers arrived at the tough , par-70 lay-out to begin their preparation , Faldo had already been through a punishing schedule since Thursday . |
| 8 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |
| 9 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 10 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 11 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 12 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 13 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |