Example sentences of "[pron] had gone [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 .
2 The fire was still burning in the hearth ; all the draughts had long since been stopped ; but the room itself had gone chill around her .
3 It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality .
4 A couple of years ago they had gone sky high .
5 When it had gone midnight Lowell knew she was n't coming .
6 My father-in-law had moved the money into the Pyramid Building Society in Melbourne , which was offering the best interest rates available at the time , and it had gone bust .
7 Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust
8 Needless to say the revelations made by John Stalker ( 1988 ) were also less than welcome to the service , and all around I heard my contemporaries condemn the fact that he had gone public .
9 McDermott , who as a lower order batsman was a prime target in a ‘ bumper ’ war between the two sides in 1991 , said he had gone public with his allegations after reading Richards ' recent autobiography , ‘ Hitting Across the Line . ’
10 When he had gone Rain said : ‘ At least we know why Joseph did n't want a lift back to the boat .
11 And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert .
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