Example sentences of "to go through " in BNC.

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1 Auditions are a painful necessity of life and not a fair judgement on your career but you have to go through them .
2 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 ?
3 Moving through a confined space , for example if the glider is too large to go through the door , it is always wise to go nose first , swinging the glider right round and out with its nose close to one door .
4 If you have to go through a smoke-filled area , crawl with your head low
5 Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field .
6 A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages .
7 We 'll only have to go through it all again when we move . ’
8 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
9 Many of the reopenings were under the ‘ Speller ’ rule : Tony Speller 's 1981 Bill made it possible for services to reopen experimentally without the need to go through the formal closure procedures in the event of failure .
10 Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves .
11 HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial .
12 In the Littlewoods Cup , Scarborough , two goals down to Chelsea , score three times in seven minutes to go through 4-3 on aggregate .
13 Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery .
14 Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start .
15 So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist .
16 You have to go through a sort of incubation period while people weigh you up .
17 As soon as she started to go through the bundle of letters , all Moran 's attention was fixed on the sorting .
18 It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like .
19 At the point when he began to enjoy himself , he was sent off to go through it all again in Australia , in order that the Commonwealth could be seen to have played some part in his education .
20 Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’
21 My elder brother , one of the last O-level year , pretends to sneer at my GCSE passes , but I 'm glad we did n't have to go through all the cramming and regurgitation of the old exams .
22 A man of his far from sanguine temperament would hardly want to go through all that again .
23 ‘ These countries are going to go through a period of not only political but also economic instability for some time to come , ’ he says .
24 No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’
25 And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case .
26 From the president down , the policymakers have always appreciated that Germany was bound to go through a period of introversion .
27 On the other hand , the old Chancery practice which compelled B to go through the whole of A's story and give an answer upon oath to everything said in it has disappeared ; the evidence in the ordinary course is given viva voce in court when the trial comes on .
28 Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me .
29 He had to go through the shopping centre to get there , and the market-place .
30 He could be more personal now that he did n't have to go through a nosy newspaper office .
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