Example sentences of "he have [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows he has not arrived — he is still travelling — but he has learnt through the experiences of life and there is a maturity about him . |
| 2 | He 'd gone through the drawers once , looking for something — he could n't remember what , but there was nothing personal in that desk . |
| 3 | Half awake , he was hailed by a guard for , inadvertently he 'd cycled through the entrance gates , so he quickly turned and pedalled away with heart churning . |
| 4 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 5 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 6 | He had to go through the shopping centre to get there , and the market-place . |
| 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 | He had to go through the churchyard to reach the back lane so he counted the houses to be sure of identifying Alfred 's door . |
| 9 | Few things surprised Müller ; he had lived through the trauma of Germany 's defeat and the painful reconstruction of a shattered and divided people . |
| 10 | He had lived through the war with the partisans . |
| 11 | Joshua knew from long experience that ‘ courageous ’ meant deeply unpopular ; he had lived through the poll-tax fiasco . |
| 12 | He wore the same black clothes — baggy corduroys , heavy sweater , working-man 's jacket — that he had worn through the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 13 | He persuaded a friend he had made through the gallery , Sheridan Dufferin , then an undergraduate at Christchurch , to go a good deal higher , and it worked . |
| 14 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 15 | As he passed quickly in front of the flame , Tallis got the hint of scratches on his body , and she imagined he had run through the tight thorn scrub between the village and his purloined domain upon the hill . |
| 16 | As he stood waiting for the kettle to boil , he reflected that he had nothing so good and lavish as he had observed through the open door of Mrs Farmer 's kitchen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Boy looked through the glass of the living room window , or at the glass of the television screen , with the same fierce attention that he had stared through the shop windows . |
| 20 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 21 | If it was courage , his face had expressed indifference , but his back had conveyed desperation , while he had slid through the door with his body touching the wall . |
| 22 | Jock decided to play as the congregation assembled and before the proper organist arrived , but his hesitant , hymnal efforts had a spare , Protestant ring about them and when , in despair , he broke into a decidedly rag-time syncopation with ‘ Wait Till the Sun Shines , Nelly ’ the proper organist , who was a very proper spinster-woman , rose and hurriedly pushed him off the stool before he had got through the chorus . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah . |
| 25 | When she looked up he had come through the barrier towards her . |
| 26 | To reach the ancient Norman edifice with its pointed windows he had to pass through the bell tower , open to the world at both ends . |
| 27 | He had dropped through the hole into a corridor that looked typical of every space station Ace had ever been on . |
| 28 | As he had walked through the doorway , he just caught a glimpse of Mary snatching Billy 's hand off her right breast . |
| 29 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 30 | Except that once , of course , on the day he had walked through the garage wall . |