Example sentences of "have gone [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | More than 100 jobs have been axed , a For Sale sign has gone up over a large slice of its assets and chief executive Andros Stakis has been ousted . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
4 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
5 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
6 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
7 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
8 | As I write , the invitation has gone out to a thousand mainstream church leaders to attend a London conference , ‘ to equip church leaders who desire to develop the gift and ministry of prophecy . ’ |
9 | And so Ruth , the one who has gone out as a poor glean and walking behind the reapers , hoping they would treat her kindly . |
10 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
11 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
12 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
13 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
14 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
15 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
16 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
17 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
18 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
19 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
20 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
23 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
24 | And he said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
25 | But Blades manager Dave Bassett reflected on his early days in charge of Vinny Jones and Co. at Wimbledon and said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
26 | By 1900 no gentleman and few ladies would have gone out without a smart , tightly furled umbrella of black silk with a touch of silver on the handle . |
27 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
28 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |
29 | ‘ Must have gone out in a hurry . |
30 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |