Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have gone [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Brown Windsor , also a Whitbread Gold Cup winner , in 1989 , is trained by Lambourn-based Nicky Henderson , who has gone close in the Grand National on several occasions .
2 Described , only half jokingly , as the longest rock video ever made , Apocalypse is a journey into madness following Martin Sheen 's mission to kill Marlon Brando 's Kurtz , a US officer who has gone crazy in the furthest reaches of the jungle .
3 That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was
4 The second of the new partners engaged in 1909 was Geoffrey Hobson , a brilliant scholar , who had gone deaf after passing exams both to the Bar and the Foreign Office .
5 Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie 's foibles than he was of hers .
6 A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness :
7 Coleman once referred to ‘ heartbreaking ’ letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice , but he said ‘ I have no compunctious visitings in the matter ’ .
8 Now , so , Face is trying to sort of put off Sir Epicure Manhom by saying , you know , this a mad woman who 's done too much learning nice little attack on women here by Johnson , who , who is one of the biggest misogynists in the world , erm a woman who 's gone crazy with learning and who knows nothing because er she 's just a prostitute and therefore she 's thick .
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