Example sentences of "they have gone [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back .
2 And then about erm from about an hour , about half an hour later after we 'd sat down we 're just laughing our heads off because the gi , they 'd gone down the pub and we said no , we 'll have a quiet night in .
3 I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ .
4 The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations .
5 When that did n't work out he went to Mal at Monad where they 'd gone for the villanelle .
6 Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job .
7 There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back .
8 She really would have preferred a cup of tea , but could n't refuse when they 'd gone to so much trouble .
9 Cheering , in wild enthusiasm and their best clothes still , the clansmen swung back aboard their galleys , and heaved them round and away again , a sight happier than when they 'd gone to Inveraray .
10 ‘ They were all either dead or they 'd gone to Australia .
11 I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America .
12 Kate said they 'd gone to the army display and mentioned the rations that were taken on Antarctic expeditions .
13 They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny .
14 I thought we got him and Forrester at the same time — they 'd gone to Auxerre straight from the FA School of Excellence or something .
15 The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year .
16 They 'd gone to the barn with David Harper , Daniel Winter and Wisdom Smith after an evening at the pub .
17 I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I
18 they 'd gone past the , they were working outside the you know where , as you go
19 They 'd gone into Charlie 's office , at the end of the corridor .
20 Once again each man visited with his own buddies that they 'd gone through training with here in the States , so we feel very much attached to the Hundredth Bomb Group and .
21 They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps .
22 They 'd gone through its pockets and piled up the contents in a heap .
23 but clearly there , there is an element of that , there is an element that they 'd gone beyond it that 's that that bit is difficult to define and quantify .
24 ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away .
25 They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat .
26 Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse .
27 Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game .
28 Cold water fish and then er what are generally known as tropical fish which are basically fresh water tropical fish , and maybe this last fifteen years or so , er a step up from that they 've gone onto tropical marine fish .
29 But they 've gone with time .
30 They 've gone on a recce . ’
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