Example sentences of "they [verb] been through [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
2 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
3 | They had been through all this before . |
4 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
5 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
6 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
7 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
8 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |