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

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1 Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so .
2 How could all that have gone on under my nose ? ’
3 A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months .
4 ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed …
5 And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot .
6 Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial .
7 The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters .
8 As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly .
9 They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution .
10 The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road .
11 " Sometimes , it all depends on what 's gone on during the day .
12 It occurred to her suddenly that she had forgotten to tell Urquhart what had gone on during the day , especially what Marek Nowak had told her and the disastrous arrest of Taczek .
13 I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years .
14 we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative .
15 We we need n't worry too much that thought but erm the Greek revolt itself in eighteen twenty to one to round about eighteen twenty five had gone on without any European intervention .
16 When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure .
17 If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration .
18 And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go
19 ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’
20 ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’
21 The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years .
22 Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer .
23 She could have gone on for hours .
24 COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour .
25 I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week .
26 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
27 This saga has gone on for quite some time .
28 ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it .
29 Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’
30 In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby .
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