Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such shops have gone old school crazy . |
| 2 | Almost certainly , other border skirmishes have gone unreported ; allied helicopters and American A-10 tank-busting aircraft regularly patrol the frontier attacking ground targets inside Kuwait . |
| 3 | ‘ Your eyes have gone dark , and your mouth looks thinner and you 're pale again ; I 've noticed that that always happens when you 're unhappy , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the past 12 months , because of his policies , 768,000 people have lost their jobs , 100,000 people have lost their homes and 45,000 companies have gone bankrupt ? |
| 5 | ‘ Finances here in cattle have gone bad and we are losing people , ’ she says . |
| 6 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 7 | Tillie Olsen can warn you about all the ways it can possibly happen , and show , too , how the best writers have gone quiet in response to discouragement and lack of understanding . |
| 8 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 9 | There needs to be personal contact when things have gone wrong , the head and staff need to be generous in their apologies when they make mistakes . |
| 10 | He believes that older people have had a raw deal , and through his writing he hopes to show where things have gone wrong and how more positive attitudes could be developed . |
| 11 | If I 'm not , things have gone wrong . |
| 12 | It has never been the Queen 's style to rant and rave when things have gone wrong — and in truth she has never needed to . |
| 13 | At the same time the regulators , too , need to know where things have gone wrong and they can not afford to wait the year or eighteen months necessary to conduct an investigation in depth before taking corrective action . |
| 14 | But two things have gone wrong with the deal . |
| 15 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |
| 16 | What kind of things have gone wrong in the past . |
| 17 | Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them . |
| 18 | Like the Trade Descriptions Act , it is designed not to give individual consumers a remedy when things have gone wrong , but rather to prevent things from going wrong . |
| 19 | However , things have gone wrong , and if ever Falls now . |
| 20 | According to a recent report from the market research company Mintel , customer perceptions of quality in products and service have more to do with their expectation that companies should get it right first time than with the belief that they should provide a safety net to protect consumers once things have gone wrong . |
| 21 | When the US firm of Laventhol & Horwath folded in the face of a mass of litigation , the court required its partners to find $40m of their own money to help pay the creditors , and some of the partners have gone bankrupt . |
| 22 | ‘ Our comments have gone unheeded by central government but surely they must pay attention now that they have been reiterated by a person of his standing . ’ |
| 23 | The allotment holders have gone public inviting visitors to see how to use greener gardening techniques.Whop those weeds with a piece of old carpet and plant bedfellows that get on . |
| 24 | Gerry replied , ‘ The winds dropped , the engine wo n't start and I think the batteries have gone dead ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Prices have gone mad . ’ |
| 26 | old ladies have gone bald pigtails . |
| 27 | In fact the Americans have gone cool on the idea . |
| 28 | Too true and how many attempted coups have gone wrong and the cash has been lost without any question of an inquiry . |
| 29 | Back over on Emmerdale ( 9.64 million ) only the ducks have gone quackers ! |
| 30 | Cold Blow Lane no longer chills the blood for all the wrong reasons , but that is not to say the Lions have gone soft . |