Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] gone [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of each of the 23 pairs has gone to one of the resulting sperm or ova and one to the other . |
| 2 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 3 | Over the last two centuries , the relationship between the press and the political parties has gone through many changes . |
| 4 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 5 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 6 | Given this topic framework , J is constrained from talking about these things unless he introduces into the topic framework some additional information which he could then treat as shared by his hearer-that one of his brothers had gone to Australia to train as a brain surgeon and he considered doing the same , but settled for bricklaying instead . |
| 7 | These offers were meant to demonstrate that the two younger brothers had gone to the very limit of reasonable concessions , and hence would bear no guilt for the casualties of battle . |
| 8 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 9 | ‘ Except it was closed for Christmas and the animals had gone on their holidays . ’ |
| 10 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 11 | His eyes had gone to positive slits by now . |
| 12 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 13 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 14 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 15 | But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them . |
| 16 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | Three months had gone in establishing his pseudo-self as a friendless , cowardly drunk . |
| 18 | But this was untrue , for Minch had become quieter and more peaceful as the months had gone by , staring out over the Zoo with a mysterious tranquillity , as if she had found some contentment that eluded the others . |
| 19 | The months had gone by and suddenly , the roof had fallen in . |
| 20 | The feel of Chris 's body in his arms and the taste of her lips had gone to his head more powerfully than any wine . |
| 21 | So you wish a dozen anti-Fascists had gone to the hospital , do you ? ’ |
| 22 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 23 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 24 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 25 | All the Smarties have gone from the plates which now have small pink morsels on . |
| 26 | The first two cases in a crackdown on Sunday traders have gone before magistrates . |
| 27 | ‘ When clients have gone to a firm and believe that they have been treated badly , they tend to complain against the firm , not the engagement partner , and are surprised when the Institute tells them that they can not do so , ’ said Elwyn Eilledge , head of the working party . |
| 28 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 29 | Plus points include the availability of a wide range of standard sizes — you should be able to find at least one to fit your site — and the fact that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths in recent years to improve the poor appearance that older prefabricated sectional buildings traditionally suffered from . |
| 30 | The reason England has n't produced a heavyweight champion of the world , he adds casually , is that most of the contenders have gone into football . |