Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] through " in BNC.

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1 Either circumstance can have a lasting effect upon self-view and relationships , while the youngster who has not come through the " mourning " phase adequately may act in later life exactly as though a " new " parent were sought .
2 In an interferometer , light that has passed through the fluid interferes with light from the same source that has not passed through the fluid .
3 If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet .
4 Evading questions about how he proposed to resist the will of virtually the whole Arab and international community , he said that Lebanon had not gone through 15 years of civil war , and given thousands of martyrs , for the dishonourable settlement the world was offering .
5 Her sister 's disappearance six years ago had not gone through her mind during the ordeal .
6 He told us to fill in this form , saying we had not gone through the right channels . ’
7 She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did .
8 Her therapist had suggested that she should speak more fully and openly to her husband , but an ancient , instinctive residue of wisdom had told Scarlet that this would be inadvisable : she had not gone through any process of transference , did not therefore regard her therapist as omnipotent , and so her suspicion that she was wasting money on her treatment was not unfounded .
9 He rested his glass on the paunch now , regarded them owlishly , and gave the impression , as always , of someone who had not gone through the usual process of growing up , but had remained a toddler , magnified to the nth degree .
10 Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window .
11 She raised her head , astonished and relieved that he had not seen through her .
12 An inspired guess was made that the failure of the seeds to germinate was because its seeds had not passed through the gut of the dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) , extinct since 1681 .
13 I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more .
14 I 've not got through them all , I was just reading selective pieces
15 On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs .
16 Barclays de Zoete Wedd chief strategist Michael Hughes said : ‘ Even at this last hurdle the Tories have not broken through the magic 40 per cent barrier .
17 I have not padded through the Taj Mahal ,
18 Even if they have not gone through this early stage of becoming interested in dieting , women often find that after the birth of a baby they have a little excess fat to lose and this often marks the beginning of an obsession with shape and with dieting .
19 Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ?
20 Specifically exempted are agricultural produce and game which have not gone through an " industrial process " .
21 Since so much capital has external sources , the bourgeoisie have not come through the same phase of saving and investment , as did their European counterparts , but have moved straight to a consumption stage .
22 It would appear from her article that she believes that the unschooled Wolof have not passed through this stage .
23 The laws governing politics , says Morgenthau , have not changed through the years , and they enable the Realist to ascertain the rational thing for a national leader to do in any circumstances .
24 It 's not gone through the post and arrived battered , torn or creased ; and it 's not going to be just plumped down in piles on the floor .
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