Example sentences of "[noun pl] had gone [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 2 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 3 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 4 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 5 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 6 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 7 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 8 | He said 300 similar small businesses had gone out of business in Darlington since the last election . |
| 9 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 10 | I got , I got the impression that he was fairly exasperated at the way things had gone up to now . |
| 11 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 12 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 13 | Instructions had gone out from on high that the boat was not to be rocked , and Margaret Thatcher was as good as her word . |
| 14 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 15 | Mr Parcell said Levy and some friends had gone back to his home and there was a ‘ food fight ’ . |
| 16 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |
| 17 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 18 | Two divers had gone down into the river during the morning , but had found no item of relevance ; and perhaps would not have recognised its relevance had they found it . |
| 19 | Two years later , receipts had gone up to £3,500 , and after the audience survey , reached over £13,000 . |
| 20 | This was mainly due to demobilization , but others may have been attracted to the region due to the fact that through the expropriation of landowners , the area held by peasants had gone up by 65 per cent since 1917 . |
| 21 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 22 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 23 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 24 | When she was satisfied that the men had gone back to their car , Mary hurried towards Smiling Meadow . |
| 25 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 26 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 27 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 28 | with , with , with it , with it before I actually got involved after negotiations had gone through for the remo for the moving of the tenants . |
| 29 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 30 | The teachers had suddenly ended their strike , and the four youngest children had gone back to school . |