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

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1 Last night he 'd gone a work .
2 we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting .
3 And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship .
4 Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny .
5 Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’
6 I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty .
7 The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ .
8 He was straining hard now , and still nothing was happening ; everything had gone a couple of shades darker , and the roaring in his ears drowned out everything else .
9 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
10 In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing .
11 Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust .
12 Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’
13 Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk .
14 At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further .
15 The new German government had gone a stage further , adopting a target of a net reduction in C02 emissions of between 25 and 30 per cent by the year 2005 .
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