Example sentences of "been through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 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 | However , I have now been through the notebook you left with me and there are a few things I wish . |
| 4 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 5 | Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect . |
| 6 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |
| 7 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 8 | Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already . |
| 9 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 10 | This explains , says the professor , why all Archer 's characters seem never to have been through the growing-up process . |
| 11 | Having been through the experience , though , may facilitate a certain realism about the conflict in question . ’ |
| 12 | He talks about his ileostomy ( a permanent colostomy ) with the lack of embarrassment that only someone who has been through it can . |
| 13 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 14 | We have been through them before . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been through both already so I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 18 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
| 19 | Still , I 've been through the trade directory and come up with something a bit more hopeful . |
| 20 | The convoy has already been through a Soviet Checkpoint at Marienborn on the West/East German border , Where the numbers of men and vehicles have been thoroughly checked . |
| 21 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 22 | Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period . |
| 23 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
| 24 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 25 | I 've been through it all . |
| 26 | You ca n't forget if you 've been through it , you ca n't . ’ |
| 27 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 28 | Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead . |
| 29 | It is vital , however , that agencies involved in alternatives to care continue to listen to those who have been through the system . |
| 30 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |