Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been through " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is .
2 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
3 ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ?
4 I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London .
5 I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all .
6 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 . ’
7 I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 .
8 How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ?
9 You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them .
10 The iron grey , Tero , got by because her coat was almost black , but Maldita was so dazzlingly white , except for a sprinkling of rust-brown freckles on her belly , that she looked as though she 'd been through the car wash .
11 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
12 How could I tell her the truth , after all she 'd been through ? ’
13 Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer .
14 She 'd been through so much with an alcoholic daughter , unemployed husband and dyslexic son .
15 She had been through enough already .
16 She had been through here on numerous occasions .
17 She did n't fully understand the set-up at the Katz Motel , but she had been through the fires , and was surviving .
18 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 .
19 Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ?
20 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 ?
21 I said and so would you if you had been through what I have .
22 We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful .
23 Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest
24 I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … .
25 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 .
26 When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender .
27 He said they 'd been through the a the er interview process and they 've chosen who they want .
28 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 .
29 They had been through his things .
30 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 .
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