Example sentences of "had be [verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver was apparently unfamiliar with the area , and the need to call directions forward made questions and conversation impossible ; the only responses he could get were Langstone , a promise of explanations later , and another reassurance that everything had been cleared through his office . |
| 2 | On Aug. 14 at least 79 protesters were arrested at the US Eighth Army headquarters in central Seoul , after a car had been rammed through the main gate . |
| 3 | Second , the profile and responsibilities of management had been raised through the introduction of general management throughout the service . |
| 4 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 5 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |
| 6 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |
| 7 | The hotel rooms for herself and her colleagues had been reserved through Rune 's secretary so he would know they intended to stay until Sunday — four nights . |
| 8 | It is possible that a strong sense of teamwork , which was less apparent in other instances , had been engendered through such within-board activity . |
| 9 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 10 | He had been stabbed through the throat . |
| 11 | But Kingfisher director , Mr Archie Norman , said he had total confidence in brokers Phillips and Drew , despite the fact that much of the trading had been done through them . |
| 12 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 13 | it was a symbol of the new mood in the country that ordinary people wanted to participate in politics whereas in the past protest had been expressed through local guerrilla risings and religious demonstrations . |
| 14 | He asserted that the black pads had been manufactured through injections of Indian ink under the skin . |
| 15 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 16 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ It had been arranged through NEMS ’ office that we should meet . |
| 17 | Every time he had been led through the house previously , it had been different . |
| 18 | Other boys from Port Talbot Secondary had been escorted through the mysterious gates into the fabled world of professional acting — the man who had done all that was Philip Burton . |
| 19 | The man returned to his house at Lemington Place at 10.30pm yesterday to find flammable liquid had been poured through his letter box . |
| 20 | The occupant returned home at 10.30 last night to find flammable liquid had been poured through the letterbox . |
| 21 | Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face . |
| 22 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 23 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 24 | The way that had been made through the fallen rock was very narrow and uneven and to take John out he was laid on a board and pushed along as if on a sledge . |
| 25 | Although some success had been achieved through its radical economic , social and political programme in the early period , suspicions of the links with more sinister movements in Europe and the development of anti-semitism and political violence turned public opinion against the fascist movement . |
| 26 | Success had been achieved through the meticulous planning of their leader , Papa . |
| 27 | Careful analysis of the electoral results showed that the ALP 's narrow victory — its majority in the House of Representatives fell from 18 to eight and it suffered a negative swing of almost 2 per cent — had been achieved through skilful targeting of marginal constituencies and preference voters . |
| 28 | However , it was only in 1929 that a separate Secretariat for Latin America was formed within the Comintern 's Moscow administration ; hitherto relations with Latin American Communist parties had been handled through a ‘ Latin Secretariat ’ which also covered Southern Europe . |
| 29 | In addition to his position as one of the country 's leading black politicians , Young was also a renowned liberal whose political views had been shaped through his involvement in the civil rights movement . |
| 30 | A package of laws redefining local government structure , responsibilities and powers and the electoral system had been rushed through the National Assembly in recent weeks . |