Example sentences of "had [verb] through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had got to their feet the gunman had jumped through the open passenger door and the wheels shrieked in protest as the car sped away from the hotel . |
| 2 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 10 | When Duncan and Myeloski had come through the small terminal , they soon found that no car had been sent to greet them . |
| 11 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 12 | Both families had ties with greater men , who were more concerned with affairs of State , and they were affected by political turmoil , particularly the Stonors , who suffered forfeiture in 1483 for rebelling against Richard III , but both had come through the earlier phase of the dynastic struggle with relatively minor scars . |
| 13 | THE report , Stevie explained as Patrick drove away from the station , had come through the British Embassy in Bucharest . |
| 14 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 15 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 16 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 17 | Her eyes were sparkling and her legs bustling when he had staggered into the incident room an hour late at nine o'clock : he had been so tired he had slept through the high-pitched beep of his alarm clock . |
| 18 | He presumed that a plane , out of control had crashed through the fragile frame of wood and canvas . |
| 19 | Aye I had to look through the whole lot of them . |
| 20 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 21 | As soon as she had disappeared through the front doorway , Jessamy swung round to face Julius . |
| 22 | Hamilton had disappeared through the connecting passage which led to their living quarters . |
| 23 | A strange plaintive yowl had curdled through the hushed wood . |
| 24 | Like a surgeon 's scalpel the river we were following had cut through the thin skin of soil and sediments to expose the underlying pillow lavas . |
| 25 | By 1990 it had gone through the familiar process : what started as a compromising fudge had been rationalized as yet another creative act of policy , fitting in with its unique character to a harmonious pattern of public service broadcasting . |
| 26 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 27 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 28 | I gently reeled in , got him to my hand and carefully removed the fly , which had gone through the thin beak membrane . |
| 29 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 30 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |