Example sentences of "had [vb pp] through [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore the same black clothes — baggy corduroys , heavy sweater , working-man 's jacket — that he had worn through the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This expedition , in addition to proving a new method of jungle warfare , did another great thing for British troops : it convinced them of the friendliness of the people of Burma , for many of them who had fought through the 1942 campaign had prejudiced memories of those hard days . |
| 4 | The recession abruptly derailed the gravy train on which most in the record industry had ridden through the 1970s ; the generous salaries , inflated expenses and transcontinental junkets . |
| 5 | From ‘ Get A Job ’ with the Miracles in 1958 , his high , crooning tenor had drifted through the Sixties , Seventies and Eighties like some ageless cupid with few apparent wrinkles . |