Example sentences of "gone mad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I stop a total stranger in the street And say to him : Let's do that one more time , But this time walk past slower , with a limp , Or smiling to yourself , as one gone mad . |
| 2 | Christ , have I gone mad ? |
| 3 | Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie 's foibles than he was of hers . |
| 4 | He wondered if Lee had gone mad . |
| 5 | Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . |
| 6 | Maybe he 'd gone mad . |
| 7 | He must have gone mad or deaf . |
| 8 | She knew he did n't escape : perhaps he had gone mad , a gibbering idiot in the middle of that room , in the dark , with those doors opening and closing all around him . |
| 9 | Had he gone mad ? |
| 10 | In the meantime , all his friends have been dispatched by serial killers , his dad , wrongly accused of the crimes , has killed himself and his mum has gone mad . |
| 11 | ‘ Prices have gone mad . ’ |
| 12 | It feels as though you have gone mad . |
| 13 | Bereaved people trying to make sense of what has happened to them often find that one of the most difficult things is to discover that they ‘ can not think straight ’ and when they do their thoughts are often so disturbing and frightening that they feel they 've ‘ gone mad ’ . |
| 14 | This had to mean , she felt , that she had gone mad because , as she saw it , there could be no other explanation . |
| 15 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 16 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 17 | Ferdinando stared at her as though she had gone mad . |
| 18 | Ladislav explained that the constantly changing maze of roadworks and diversions in Prague was the result not of ambitious renewal programmes , but of bureaucracy gone mad . |
| 19 | Having felt pain , I knew I was not dreaming , and I wondered if I had gone mad , though the fact that I had hallucinated , and had shown myself to have such a naive view of God , would be sufficient proof for some . |
| 20 | Have you gone mad ? ’ |
| 21 | A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness : |
| 22 | Others said that Clinker had gone mad at the fusing point and could n't restrain himself . |
| 23 | Surrey had made 92 for three when Stuart suddenly declared — we thought he had gone mad . |
| 24 | Rab wondered about Doctor , had she gone mad ; speaking to him , almost as if he was human . |
| 25 | The night gone mad to soon be madder . |
| 26 | They were scared of the dogs that had been bitten and strayed : scared that the jackals , gone mad , would come in from the forest and molest them in packs . |
| 27 | I was wondering if the world had gone mad . |
| 28 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 29 | Lighting the last of her cigarettes , she inhaled deeply The world had gone mad , with every capital city in Europe occupied by strutting Nazis . |
| 30 | Have you gone mad , talking of marrying a total stranger — and a foreigner — after five minutes ? |