Example sentences of "man [vb past] gone [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 2 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 3 | The crowd of women and the big man had gone out into the street , but the thin man remained ; and he looked from the child towards the closed door before he , too , turned and went out . |
| 4 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 5 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 6 | To reach their goal d'Abreu 's men had gone halfway round the world from Europe to the Orient , and always in directions with an easterly component . |