Example sentences of "had [vb pp] through [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 . |
| 2 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 3 | Until the two old ladies with their umbrellas shattered his dream , he had walked through the streets of Brighton as if it were his own kingdom , doffing his flat cap to passers-by who could n't help hearing him coming from two blocks away . |
| 4 | Wonderfully neat in their red and black practice clothes , they had gone through the rigours of a simplified ballet barre ( with varying degrees of stoicism ) , a mime sequence ( much enthusiasm ) and foot-stretching exercises ( giggles and pretend moans ) . |
| 5 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
| 6 | I had run through the ranks of one gang from the rear , and was approaching the other , twenty-five yards ahead of me along the pavement . |
| 7 | He was promptly pitched overboard and just as promptly swallowed by a great fish or whale which the Lord had directed through the waters for this especial purpose . |
| 8 | In early July the new cruzado was again devalued from $1.00=1.512 cruzados to $1.00=1.693 cruzados following protests against low prices due to the overvalued currency by soyabean farmers which had spread through the states of Mato Grosso and Paraná . |
| 9 | The shambling uprising of anti-war Guevara-dreamers which had begun in Cambridge in October 1967 with a demonstration against Harold Wilson , leading to some skirmishing with police , had spread through the universities of the country . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it released new figures stating that 23,531 people had passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962 , including 14,647 political internees , and that around 300 had died there " from natural causes or as a result of force " . |
| 11 | A great deal of Thomas 's trade had passed through the hands of Spencer Grenfell who seemed to have trouble bringing in payment to her father on time . |
| 12 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 13 | Mr. Hallworth had read through the terms of the charge before the interview . |