Example sentences of "[pron] had been [vb pp] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mistake I had been put through not to the hospital but to a psychiatric ward . |
| 2 | This , yoked with the survival of unpaid feudal service on the lord 's land , the lord 's continued control of woodlands , common land , open fields and meadows used for grazing , and the continued obligation of the tenant to consume only alcohol which had been distilled through the lord 's own stills , meant that while in theory Prussian serfdom was abolished by 1850 , in practice it was not really seriously undermined in Pomerania until the agricultural review of 1865 . |
| 3 | By 1516 he had inherited his father 's lands , which had been augmented through the death in 1508 of a distant kinsman , Richard Beauchamp , sixth Baron St Amand . |
| 4 | ‘ A workman , who had been injured through the breaking of a defective part in the machine with which he was working , brought an action of damages against his employers , and later convened as second defenders the manufacturers of the machine , who had supplied it to his employers , on averments to the effect that the accident had been caused by the fault of the manufacturers in that they failed to supply his employers with a machine which was safe for use by their servants . |
| 5 | Inside was the body of a man who had been shot through the mouth . |
| 6 | The only real hospital case was a travelling salesman who had been shot through the foot . |
| 7 | The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office . |
| 8 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 9 | Many had great dents in them , as if they had been drawn through fences and over walls , and had taken the rough side of the hill . |
| 10 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ It had been arranged through NEMS ’ office that we should meet . |
| 11 | Senior American officials were quick to dismiss it as propaganda which would not even warrant a formal reply since it had been issued through Tass . |
| 12 | Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face . |
| 13 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 14 | He had been shot through the head . |
| 15 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 16 | Every time he had been led through the house previously , it had been different . |
| 17 | He had been stabbed through the throat . |
| 18 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |
| 19 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 20 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |