Example sentences of "gone [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 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 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 8 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 11 | As the euphoria had gone along with an irrational faith in the Gaullist saviour , so the deepening disillusionment of 1945 , essentially an adjustment to reality , was reflected in a desanctification of the saviour figure . |
| 12 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |
| 13 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 14 | She 's gone over for a closer look . ’ |
| 15 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |
| 16 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 17 | gone off with a long-distance lorry driver . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 20 | ‘ Gone back for a further inspection , ’ provided a voice out of the gloom . |
| 21 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 22 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 23 | Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item , so an order would have gone out to a local plumber . |
| 24 | It 's pretty hard to think about that when you 've just gone out of a Grand Slam event as early as that . |
| 25 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 26 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |