Example sentences of "[conj] had gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 2 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 3 | He bought a small printing firm that had gone bankrupt , and because of contacts in the Labour Party and all kinds of left-wing political groups , soon had a bread-and-butter basis of pamphlets , brochures , tracts , leaflets , and then a couple of small newspapers . |
| 4 | He had n't held out much hope , although he had agreed that the letter seemed to disprove the theory about a break-in that had gone wrong . |
| 5 | It was reassuring to hear of another life that had gone wrong , to be reminded that , however successful a person might seem , things were n't always easy . |
| 6 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 7 | When Erich Honecker gave his last big speech many people regretted the fact that there was n't a hint of sadness about all the things that had gone wrong in the past 40 years , all the changes that should have happened and never did — nor , finally , any regrets about the many people who fled the country . |
| 8 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 9 | My left arm , on which my head was pillowed , had long since ceased to prick and had gone dead , but even so the singing of the men in the valley below reached me all too soon . |
| 10 | He had bought too many farms and had gone bankrupt in the agricultural depression at the beginning of this century . |