Example sentences of "[pron] had been through " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 3 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 4 | She had been through enough already . |
| 5 | She had been through here on numerous occasions . |
| 6 | She did n't fully understand the set-up at the Katz Motel , but she had been through the fires , and was surviving . |
| 7 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 8 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 9 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If he could find someone who had been through the mill as he had and then collaborate with them , great things were possible . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Advice , prospectuses , fact sheets , helplines , career and benefits experts , course counsellors , businesswomen , and mature returners and learners , who had been through it all and come out stronger , were all there to persuade women learning is for life and it 's never too late or too hard to start . |
| 14 | Here was someone who had been through hell , but still could forgive the bombers , while pleading with them to realise the tragedy they were causing . |
| 15 | The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance . |
| 16 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 17 | Am I to believe in it , that every response should come so neatly , as if you had been through the Gospels and marked all the places to trap each enquirer ? |
| 18 | I said and so would you if you had been through what I have . |
| 19 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 20 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |
| 21 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 22 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 23 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had been through his things . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 28 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 29 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 30 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |