Example sentences of "[adv] have gone " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’
2 We devised a sort of Great Egg Race for the children — Rover gave us some materials which would normally have gone on the scrap heap , lent us a hall and judged the competition .
3 The publicity may not exactly have gone to his head but it certainly set fire to his ambition .
4 This will help as the experienced school librarian will already have gone through the process of justifying and acquiring a microcomputer and can anticipate the types of questions which might be asked by senior staff in the school .
5 ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building .
6 Why could n't I just have gone to the cops and reported my stuff missing ? 'Cos I was missing myself , that 's why .
7 I could easily have gone on .
8 He could easily have gone into London and enjoyed the jollifications .
9 ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed .
10 They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way .
11 It could just as easily have gone on to Bulak bridge .
12 Had Prince Charles been an innocent party in the breakdown of his marriage , he could still have gone on to take not only the throne but the leadership of the C of E. But he is not .
13 All might still have gone well .
14 ‘ Would you still have gone , if you had known ? ’
15 Their arrival could hardly have gone unremarked , preceded as they were by a number of attendants with trunks , hatboxes and assorted luggage , a little yapping pomeranian on a lead …
16 One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ?
17 Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) .
18 Anyway I suggested to Mrs Newton that this sort of thing did n't sound like the Froggy we all knew and loved because , with great respect , that sort of money would usually have gone only in one direction — to the publicans and bookies .
19 At the same time , the new accent on ‘ community care ’ means that elderly people and disabled children who have reached a certain level of dependency and inability to cope — and who would once have gone into hospital or residential care — are now encouraged to remain at home .
20 This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking .
21 And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally !
22 The he-man was spoilt for sports car choice in the mid '60s but when it came to the crunch he would probably have gone for either the Austin Healey or the AC Cobra .
23 Many of them , like the stores empire assembled by Mr Robert Campeau ( owner of Bloomingdale 's and Bon Marché ) , Resorts International , a casino operator , and Paramount Petroleum would probably have gone into bankruptcy whatever happened .
24 Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport .
25 As a senior radio journalist pointed out to me , the Burnet succession would probably have gone to Peter Sissons if he had n't defected to the Beeb .
26 Now if you 'd put that brain in a five mile tail-back on the M1 , it would probably have gone out of its mind .
27 If a home help had been put in he would probably have gone down hill very fast .
28 Rod has told Buerk in a letter : ‘ Had it not been for your series I would probably have gone to bed and not woken up . ’
29 The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas .
30 He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’
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