Example sentences of "they have been through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said they 'd been through the a the er interview process and they 've chosen who they want . |
| 2 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 3 | And in its star system , the accolades go to the miners — they 've been through hell , fire , earth and water to become hardened into heroes . |
| 4 | They 've been through a lot . |
| 5 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 6 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 7 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 8 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 9 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |
| 10 | Even before the change , many of the policies , by the time they had been through the rather over-bureaucratic structures , became distorted and did not benefit the peasants to the extent that they should have done . |
| 11 | They had been through his things . |
| 12 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 13 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 14 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 15 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
| 18 | They had been through all this before . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 20 | If it was them , they had been through the house very , very carefully . |
| 21 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
| 22 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 23 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 24 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |