Example sentences of "[been] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation . |
2 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
3 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
4 | Jesus has been through the agony in the garden he 's been arrested he 's been abandoned by his apostles he 's been through a trial and he has actually been through the crucifixion and he 's been buried in the tomb . |
5 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |
6 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
7 | ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’ |
8 | Some elderly people have been through a divorce leaving a residue of ambivalent feelings and some social isolation ( Hunt , 1978 , Table 12:8:1 ) . |
9 | If you have been through a divorce , you must have asked yourself , what if I 'd handled things differently ? |
10 | All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera . |
11 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
12 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
13 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
14 | ‘ Nolan 's been through a lot , ’ Fiona said excusingly . |
15 | I know he 's been through a lot , I know you 're fond of him , but he and Sam should n't be in the same room together just now . ’ |
16 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
17 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
18 | You and Brian have been through a lot , living in different emergency housing places . |
19 | WE have been through a lot in the press . |
20 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
21 | ‘ But he and Jerry have been through a lot together and I 'm sure they will sort things out , ’ he added . |
22 | Right now the relationship 's good ; he 's like an old friend , we 've been through a lot of shit together . ’ |
23 | ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it . |
24 | But it probably helped our friendship , because we 've been through a lot since then . |
25 | He 's been through a lot . ’ |
26 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
27 | ‘ We 've both been through a lot , ’ he began . |
28 | " We 've been through a lot of danger , " he said . |
29 | Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her . |
30 | ‘ You 've been through a lot , ’ nodded the Doctor . |