Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] through the " in BNC.

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1 The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels .
2 These conflicts , combined with the debt crisis , have also contributed to a sharp decline in intra-regional trade which had been built up through the Central American Common Market .
3 Since those barriers could be temporarily removed by geological agents ( e.g. a lowering of the sea level during the ice age ) , or could occasionally be overcome by accidental means ( e.g. birds blown across the ocean by storms ) , it would be possible to reconstruct the process by which the unique mix of species occupying any given territory had been built up through the periodic influx of newcomers .
4 Areas which were both ambiguous acoustically and relatively unconstrained by higher-level knowledge sources would not be processed until a more global interpretation of the utterance had been built up through the extension of various islands .
5 But lap-steel is a relative newcomer to the island 's culture when compared with the tradition of slack key guitar , a beautiful acoustic fingerpicking style based around dropped , or ‘ slack ’ open tunings which have been handed down through the generations .
6 Their sunny main bedroom is the perfect home for older pieces of furniture , most of which have been handed down through the generations — Mary Jane 's mother made the tapestry fireguard and her great-grandmother made the beautiful bedspread
7 By 1890 a different kind of underground railway , a tube , had been tunnelled out through the green and yellow clay ( incidentally providing materials for millions of bricks ) , and this first line passed under the river from King William Street to Stockwell .
8 The gun roared angrily again and the inoffensive family man slumped sideways against the treacherous door , minus the top of his skull , which had been blasted out through the open side window .
9 Each village has dancers and musicians to enact musical dramas which have been passed down through the generations .
10 ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations .
11 The secret of their success has been passed down through the Arkells generations .
12 However , he telephoned from Kigali on Saturday to say that they had been taken out through the area in which the fighting had taken place without mishap .
13 French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind .
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