Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] through " in BNC.

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1 Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus .
2 Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character .
3 His immense desire to have something outside himself that he could look up to and worship expressed itself not merely in that idealistic phase that he 'd just gone through , but in his attitude towards mathematical truth .
4 There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors .
5 HAVING just struggled through a copy of the Maastricht Treaty I can only scratch my head that anyone would wish to sign it .
6 It was , I think , my first real understanding of what being spoiled meant , in more than one way , and it gave me a lifelong horror of over-dressing which , having just glanced through the photo-albums in search of an illustrative self-portrait , I seem to have conquered only too well .
7 We 've just gone through Armistice Day and I was and it 's always made , made me feel there 's something a little bit wrong about Armistice , it seemed more of a glorification in the way
8 It 's quite a drive — I 've just gone through it myself ; does n't that indicate to you how serious he is ? ’
9 We have that many er applications I mean I 've just gone through A division and I 've got er a pile of cards literally an inch thick with people a made an initial inquiry or b they 've been furnished with questionnaires and not been returned , so I 'm sending those er right through the divisions
10 I 've just looked through my notes o of the meeting .
11 I do n't know , I 've never been in it , I 've just looked through the window and then they 've got junk , I mean that , that er
12 I 've just sat through the most incredible proposition , and now you expect me to believe — ’
13 I mean I 've just come through there and I had a car today and a girl was telling me her father erm opened his door last week er cataract and the , the wife , the granny blind too and there , the man from the water board was just going to switch off your water , just okay if I check your taps , three hundred pounds out the house
14 We 've just got through an absolute bastard of a week .
15 ‘ I 've just got through telling you the food situation .
16 He had just ploughed through seven Seahawks .
17 Forget , who had just gone through the last of countless body punches from Noah , ( who throughout , worked just as hard to encourage his players as they did to respond to him ) literally ran from his seat , round the net to the far baseline in readiness to serve .
18 When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window .
19 However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point .
20 I thought when I saw the pair of you coming that you had just raced through everything , ’ Moran laughed .
21 The Act which he had just steered through Parliament faced Emanuel with difficult choices : should it remain fully independent and operate outside the State system , or should it be incorporated within the local provision of schooling and become a voluntary-aided school ?
22 There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed .
23 Pleasingly , however , though to energise her heart into a few racing beats , Moira Russell came out almost immediately and , holding the door she had just come through open , smiled and said , ‘ Mr Massingham will see you now . ’
24 Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all .
25 Not only are beer taxes still with us , but they have just gone through their biggest shake-up for many years .
26 ‘ We have just gone through quite intensive inter-party talks .
27 We have just come through one of the most difficult trading years for the UK economy in recent history , and to have achieved our budgeted turnover was in itself a praiseworthy effort .
28 I have just read through his reports of Linfield games , in the ‘ Ulster ’ last season .
29 Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market .
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