Example sentences of "[vb past] gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 2 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 3 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 4 | She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far . |
| 5 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 6 | Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’ |
| 7 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 8 | we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting . |
| 9 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 10 | I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty . |
| 11 | Parker , Oakland 's starting pitcher , had gone a full eight innings before George Bell finally broke his hit-left streak by depositing the ball over the left-field fence . |
| 12 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 13 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 14 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 15 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 16 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 17 | In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing . |
| 18 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 19 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 20 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |
| 21 | Tenison 's face had gone a blotchy pink ; his eyes were staring . |
| 22 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 23 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 24 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 25 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 26 | She had full view of the stage and of the three female impersonators , kicking up their legs in a dance , the rhythm of which had gone a little awry . |
| 27 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 28 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 29 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 30 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |