Example sentences of "had [adv] gone [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 2 | There was only a handful of mourners at Gillamoor Church , as Uncle George had rarely gone out of the little dale . |
| 3 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 4 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 5 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 6 | She slumped back in her chair , strangely deflated as though all the fight had suddenly gone out of her . |
| 7 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 8 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 9 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 10 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 11 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 12 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 13 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 14 | She was the one who had always gone on about what a paragon my father was . |
| 15 | Because the women in my family and most families in Scotland had always gone out to work . |
| 16 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 17 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 18 | Zacchaeus became reconciled to God because Jesus , instead of ignoring him or treating him like an outcast , had deliberately gone out of his way to meet and befriend him . |
| 19 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 20 | Consequently , when he had found suitable accommodation , his wife and children had also gone back to England . |
| 21 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 22 | Indeed , Branson had often gone out of his way to avoid newspaper or television interviews . |
| 23 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |
| 24 | It was true that the two had attended a house auction , but Kylie had simply gone along as a friend while Jason bid for the house he wanted to buy for himself . |
| 25 | In the previous two seasons , while I was serving my ban , both Mike Gatting and I had sometimes gone out of our way to push Tuffers in county matches at my expense . |
| 26 | Now that Bernard left industrial action to others , the heart had quite gone out of the staff 's work-to-rule and normal relations were resumed . |
| 27 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 28 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |
| 29 | I was quite sure of that for my father had again gone back to Rye marshes to reinforce the defences . |
| 30 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |