Example sentences of "[modal v] have been through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible that bolt in my arm should have been through my heart ? ’ |
| 2 | Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there . |
| 3 | How and when his link with Newcastle was established is not clear — it might have been through his employment to complete the London house which Kent had designed for the duke 's brother , Henry Pelham [ q.v. ] , after Kent 's death in 1748 — but there is plentiful evidence of the connection . |
| 4 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 5 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 6 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 7 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 8 | Access would have been through Southey Street , a narrow alleyway leading off the High Street close to the ‘ Crooked Billet ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But I would have been through here sooner or later anyway . |
| 10 | The police would have been through every drawer with a toothcomb in their search for clues ; there was nothing to be gained there . |
| 11 | Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Cropper will have been through it with a toothcomb . ’ |
| 13 | Although all staff will have been through a thorough central basic training course ( see Chapter 6 ) much additional training and supervision is still needed back in the bureau . |