Example sentences of "been [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’ |
| 2 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 3 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 5 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 6 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 7 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 8 | Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today . |
| 9 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 10 | At the end she left I said do ring Cathy if you feel like it because I 'm sure she wo n't mind well it would be nice for us to find out who 's been through the same thing recently . |
| 11 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 12 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 13 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 14 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 15 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 16 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 17 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 18 | When you 've been with the same bank since you were thirteen , you somehow feel they will grow up with you . |
| 19 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 20 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 21 | Many adherents of all denominations have been in the same state . |
| 22 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 23 | I have been in the same circumstances myself , and it is no fun . |
| 24 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 25 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 26 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 27 | My clothes have always been in the same spirit as Madonna . |
| 28 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 29 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 30 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |