Example sentences of "[vb past] be through " in BNC.
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| 31 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 32 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She had been through enough already . |
| 35 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 36 | She had been through here on numerous occasions . |
| 37 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
| 38 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 39 | Even more importantly , Maisie did n't like chicken , especially free-range , corn-fed , humanely killed chicken that had been through Jungian analysis . |
| 40 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 43 | At the end of that time , working ceaselessly , he had been through every file in every office . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Fortunately for Quinn , Sam was a trained agent , and had been through her apprenticeship in stake-out duties , than which nothing is more boring . |
| 46 | If he could find someone who had been through the mill as he had and then collaborate with them , great things were possible . |
| 47 | They had been through his things . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ I talked about it with friends and they always knew someone who had been through it who were twice the men they were before , ’ said Mr Morton , 59 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | She did n't fully understand the set-up at the Katz Motel , but she had been through the fires , and was surviving . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 56 | Hendry had been through sweet and sour on the weekend . |
| 57 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 60 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |