Example sentences of "to go through the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case .
2 There 's no need to go through the usual rigmarole of minimizing your word processor application , opening a spreadsheet , typing in the data and then copying and pasting it back into the word processor .
3 The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room .
4 HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial .
5 In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school .
6 All four were taken to a hotel to go through the agonising ordeal of kissing goodbye to the baby they had thought was theirs .
7 But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost .
8 If you are not a designated area , then you have to go through the due process of Court Orders and notices and move out in twenty eight days or something , you know , it 's a long , expensive process , which does not have to take place when a district is designated .
9 Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’
10 Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth .
11 But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions .
12 In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability .
13 Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job .
14 It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do .
15 But er no , Sir Edward had to go through the full rigmarole of a meeting with the great man , I put that in inverted commas , but er I suppose he thinks he is , the great man himself , Saddam Hussein .
16 To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically .
17 It has been much easier to give an overdraft than to go through the whole process of studying a plan for the business and coming up with longer term loan financing .
18 You may be better advised to start again , possibly finding your candidates by a different method , than risk the problems of engaging an inadequate candidate and being faced with all the disruption of having to go through the whole process at a later stage anyway .
19 She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils .
20 It may be necessary to go through the whole file in order to find how much the project has slipped altogether .
21 It may be necessary to go through the whole file in order to find how much the project has slipped altogether .
22 It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean .
23 In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone .
24 Erm , I am going to go through the left-hand side in some detail .
25 Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery .
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