Example sentences of "have gone [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , in England we 'd never have gone to a domestic dispute unless a crime had been committed . |
| 2 | And she might have gone to a specialist to have it diagnosed . |
| 3 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 4 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 5 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 7 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 8 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 9 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 10 | Erm and I I was n't feeling on top form and er looking back , I perhaps should have gone to a doctor then . |
| 11 | Ralph and Bernie must have gone to a lot of trouble to set him up . |
| 12 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 13 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 14 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 15 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 16 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 17 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |
| 18 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 19 | Perhaps you 'd have let me know we could have gone for a beer . |
| 20 | Rose would call teasingly but he would have gone with a slam of the door . |
| 21 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 22 | Gunn argues that Nina should have gone through a second , refurbishing phase , to bring it in line with the German accelerator , Desy . |
| 23 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 24 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 26 | If you were really fortunate you will have gone on a training course , far too few companies bother to invest in improving their staff 's skill in desktop publishing , and have learned at least some of the basic operations . |
| 27 | That must have gone on a lot |
| 28 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 29 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 30 | ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive . |