Example sentences of "they have [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 2 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 3 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 4 | the finish is at Drumlanrig castle … they 've been running … slipping … sliding over the mounatins for seven hours … they 've climbed into the clouds … they 've crossed the streams … they 've run through the glens for mile after mile … the Oxfordshire team of Bunn and Thetford were up to second place but have finished fourth … its been a long hard day … |
| 5 | And then you 've consulted somebody else and if the say no go ahead and sell the shares and if two days later they 've gone through the roof it 's unfortunate . |
| 6 | They 've come through the hole in time . |
| 7 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 8 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 9 | Wonderfully neat in their red and black practice clothes , they had gone through the rigours of a simplified ballet barre ( with varying degrees of stoicism ) , a mime sequence ( much enthusiasm ) and foot-stretching exercises ( giggles and pretend moans ) . |
| 10 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 11 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |
| 12 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 13 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 14 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 15 | In November the cardinals , together with representatives of the different national groupings , elected a new pope for the whole Church , Martin V. Before doing so , however , they had ensured through the decree Frequens that Councils were to be called at regular intervals of ten years . |
| 16 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 17 | On one occasion a team of five men went down into the tunnels for which purpose they had to pass through the line of empty stabled cars . |
| 18 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |
| 19 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 20 | Carp refused to accept a bait mounted directly on strong tackle because they had learned through the experience of being caught that dangerous ( hooked ) baits behaved differently from those that were not dangerous ( free , unattached baits ) . |
| 21 | In Charlie 's loft , they had talked through the night about the sickness money brings , the violence and fear that money brings , the corruption money brings , and all along the real subject was not fear or corruption or violence , but money . |
| 22 | They had passed through the blackest part of the valley now and it was a relief to see a light or two at Weem , and across the invisible river at Aberfeldy . |
| 23 | Ten minutes later , they had passed through the kilometre-thick crust of the moon via Moloch 's Pit , and were moving once more into the human-designed areas of the base . |
| 24 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 25 | Behind the glass cabinet doors , Belinda glimpsed rows of neatly labelled spice jars and piles of elegant crockery — all the pride and delight of the housekeeper Mrs Porter , evidently — then they had passed through the kitchen and into an enclosed section of veranda where the hardwood floor gave way to squares of woven sea-grass matting . |
| 26 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 27 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 28 | They have moved through the moors , burning all they can find , and are spreading north and west through all the passes , leaving no living object behind them . |
| 29 | If they wish to be assessed as needing residential care and using public money then they have to go through the assessment process and be assessed as needing residential care . |
| 30 | Students are also given the opportunity to review the learning they have gained through the induction process and to identify any areas where they need clarification . |