Example sentences of "[conj] they have [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 2 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 3 | Carp refused to accept a bait mounted directly on strong tackle because they had learned through the experience of being caught that dangerous ( hooked ) baits behaved differently from those that were not dangerous ( free , unattached baits ) . |
| 4 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 5 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 6 | After they had gone through the ordeal of giving evidence , their father , who was found guilty of eight serious charges with nine being left on the file , was put on probation and allocated to a hostel not two miles from where his last victim lives and where he can be seen by the family as they pass through the town centre . |
| 7 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 8 | For a moment it was as though they had stepped through the doorway and into a Mediterranean resort . |
| 9 | As soon as they had come through the hedge they saw Fiver . |