Example sentences of "[vb past] gone the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and digging stuff out of there then after he 'd gone the whole with all the dairy round it it was sprouting with er .
2 It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again .
3 Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else .
4 At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's .
5 By any statistical measure , the first week had gone the alliance 's way .
6 In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect .
7 We were wearing wetsuits , helmets and lamps and carrying ex-army ammunition boxes that were watertight and into which had gone the cameras and flashguns we were going to use to photograph the mine .
8 When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand .
9 Even Harvey — who had a dark complexion — had gone the colour of a boiled lobster .
10 A few battered English paperbacks had gone the rounds , and Anna had read them too .
11 As soon as Michele had gone the housekeeper began to help Luce off with her clothes .
12 After Caretaker had gone the Inspector leaned back in his chair and stretched .
13 After the lunch guests had gone the house settled down into quiet .
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