Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] through " in BNC.

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1 But may have been through that earlier .
2 ‘ We may not all have been through the war together , ’ he told me , ‘ but we 're all Conservative MPs and want to stay that way . ’
3 ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’
4 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 .
5 Access would have been through Southey Street , a narrow alleyway leading off the High Street close to the ‘ Crooked Billet ’ .
6 Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there .
7 Or it may have been through passive smoking .
8 At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works .
9 It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education .
10 ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway .
11 How and when his link with Newcastle was established is not clear — it might have been through his employment to complete the London house which Kent had designed for the duke 's brother , Henry Pelham [ q.v. ] , after Kent 's death in 1748 — but there is plentiful evidence of the connection .
12 Is it possible that bolt in my arm should have been through my heart ? ’
13 The police would have been through every drawer with a toothcomb in their search for clues ; there was nothing to be gained there .
14 Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’
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