Example sentences of "gone [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 2 | Even if Clinton sends a health-care bill to Congress soon , the 1993 legislative session is too far gone for the many lengthy hearings that must take place so that all can have their say . |
| 3 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 4 | These were trivial afflictions compared with the burden which had disappeared , gone like the flapping black wings of carrion crow that had gorged enough on the dead flesh in the field . |
| 5 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 6 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |
| 7 | Through the IMG Ali had noted that many Trotskyist women had gone into the National Joint Action Committee for Women 's Equal Rights ( NJACWER ) . |
| 8 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's possible that she might have gone to the young agricultural student — Farrel — who was here recently . |
| 10 | A six-year-old row between two Paris dealers over a FFr70 million profit made from the sale of Picasso 's 1903 masterpiece ‘ La Celestine ’ has gone to the highest legal resort after the appeal court in France , the Cour de Cassation , and looks set to last at least another twelve months . |
| 11 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 12 | Since then they had grown up , left school , even gone to the same veterinary college . |
| 13 | In order to liven their party up , she had gone to the United Social Club in Green Street to find more guests . |
| 14 | Yes I 'm not sure he 's gone on the double yellow lines , but still |