Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory leapt back , staggered on legs that had gone half to sleep , and only just scrambled into the broom cupboard and got the door shut before the bedroom door opened . |
| 2 | When Nathan ordered her to set up and engage the auto-helm she tried , desperately searching a mind that had gone totally blank for the sequence which would ensure that the boat remained on course . |
| 3 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 4 | Well , when he came out I thought it were er tape heads that had gone . |
| 5 | In the fourteenth century there seems to have been an unfortified village on the site , but by the end of the thirteenth even that had gone . |
| 6 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 7 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 8 | In welcome contrast to the dimness and the heavy , ornate splendour that had gone before , the white ceiling and walls were unadorned and light poured in through several long windows . |
| 9 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 10 | Well it 's alright , I mean if it was the chassis that had gone |
| 11 | I found the paintings quite difficult to understand , but could appreciate the intricate designs , and the tremendous amount of fine work that had gone into each one . |
| 12 | Despite the huge amount of work that had gone into making the vigil a success , though , I was sure that the whole thing would be forgotten again — just as John 's actual kidnap had been the year before . |
| 13 | It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do , but I could n't refuse , not after the work that had gone into a production like this . |
| 14 | If Africans had plenty of examples of countries that had gone through painful structural adjustments and emerged transformed , it might be easier for governments to persuade citizens that the pain was worthwhile . |
| 15 | It exploded in Joe 's head like a grenade , yet another battering shock to add to the effects that had gone before . |
| 16 | And not just the foresters and the ecologists but the public , and hence the politicians of Europe were galvanised by Waldsterben unlike any environmental issue that had gone before . |
| 17 | After Gower won the toss and put them in , West Indies had a good first day as Haynes made a patient 84 and Richardson his second successive century ; 269 for 2 at the close reflected the lack of life that Botham and Thomas had been able to extract from the pitch and the catches that had gone . |
| 18 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 19 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 20 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 21 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 22 | The answer was close now and the minutes remaining before it was revealed to her were harder to bear than the days and weeks that had gone before . |
| 23 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 24 | The extent of her fury disconcerted her fleetingly , fully alive and as fulminatingly intense as ever , despite all the years that had gone by since she had last felt like this . |
| 25 | In Britain , there had to be the recognition that a problem existed long before that problem could be effectively tackled ; American businessmen had already reached this point and had gone beyond it . |
| 26 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 27 | Where was this self that had gone missing ? |
| 28 | He said he 'd probably get it anyway , that he 'd baited the trap with a piece of meat that had gone off . |
| 29 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 30 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |