Example sentences of "[vb past] gone [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses .
2 It was cold because something had gone wrong down in the castle 's boiler room .
3 The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek .
4 Everyone else had gone back out into the cold night air , except her three companions and the proprietor .
5 Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing .
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