Example sentences of "[noun prp] had gone [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now Eleanor had gone one step further .
2 All her pleas to Dana had gone unanswered .
3 Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today .
4 Pooley had gone pink .
5 She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off .
6 The Duke of Richmond had gone pale .
7 Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally .
8 Behind him he could hear one of the boys mutter that Mr Wilson had gone mad , and another reply that he always had been .
9 But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite .
10 Theda had gone paler than usual , and she grasped at the bedpost for support .
11 However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field .
12 Others said that Clinker had gone mad at the fusing point and could n't restrain himself .
13 He wondered if Lee had gone mad .
14 If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’
15 He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong .
16 I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea .
17 Leila had gone pale .
18 He had to shave , grey bristles ; for Parker had gone bald suddenly ( and very young , a terrible fright , he had awoke one morning , all his hair was on the pillow ) and his wigs — he had three , short to long to shaggy ; the ploy , he hoped , visits to the barber — were black for blue .
19 ‘ It was ’ , observes Marchbank , ‘ the Bucky Fuller version of Architectural Review : ’ Bizarrely , but appropriately for the times , the management wanted AD to look like Oz and Marchbank had gone some way to meet their specifications , but was not altogether happy in his work .
20 Gurder had gone red .
21 Gurder had gone white .
22 He told me it was scandalous that Mills had gone unpunished .
23 The Dean had gone last and , she judged , been gone the longest .
24 Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin .
25 It was as if , after years of having no furniture at all , Sarah had gone mad for it .
26 To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well .
27 Laura had gone white .
28 Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling .
29 Even though the arrangements made by London had gone wrong , she had still found herself in a position to fight the Nazis .
30 ( ROS had gone half way up to OPHELIA ; he returns . )
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