Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] gone [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had gone to positive slits by now . |
| 2 | The most worrying aspect of all , for Corby , however , was that many parents felt they were kept in the dark about what was happening , so that while there were exceptions , and in some cases social workers had gone to great lengths to explain the system and the likely outcomes , in two cases the parents were not aware until later in the process that they and their children were the subjects of child abuse investigations . |
| 3 | The best brains and resources had gone into military research and development until Gorbachev came to power . |
| 4 | That year Californian land prices had gone into free fall . |
| 5 | The proceedings had gone through interlocutory stages for two years . |
| 6 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 7 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 8 | The Romans had gone through similar emotions . |