Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have been [verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 2 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 3 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 4 | The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office . |
| 5 | Does he agree that such improvements are a key component in a strong economy and that they have been achieved through the Government 's industrial relations laws , which the Opposition parties wish to repeal ? |
| 6 | Second , the contingent environmental events which may strengthen or weaken verbal responses are specified and an attempt should be made to identify those contingencies which will operate to maintain the target behaviours in the natural environment once they have been established through systematic teaching . |
| 7 | We believe that the heart ‘ remembers ’ that it has been preconditioned through a translocation of PKC from the cytosol into the cell membranes . |
| 8 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 9 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 11 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 12 | Many had great dents in them , as if they had been drawn through fences and over walls , and had taken the rough side of the hill . |
| 13 | Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face . |
| 14 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 15 | John McLeish , himself a forceful character , felt as if he had been put through a wringer . |
| 16 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 17 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 18 | Senior American officials were quick to dismiss it as propaganda which would not even warrant a formal reply since it had been issued through Tass . |
| 19 | Even though I 've been shopping through France |
| 20 | After spending the better part of the morning crouched down painting skirting-boards , she felt as though she 'd been put through a mangle . |
| 21 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |