Example sentences of "it [verb] gone [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business .
2 The forest also recycles nutrients and once it has gone all fertility goes with it .
3 It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation .
4 In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong .
5 When things go wrong , the citizen wants to be told fully , honestly and , preferably , there and then why it has gone wrong .
6 The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection .
7 And it has gone cold .
8 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
9 The group have begun to connect four ideas : the wire wool has gone brown ; it has gone brown because of the rain ; it might be metal ; it might be rusty .
10 So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time !
11 In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ .
12 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
13 ‘ Dad , what if it had gone rotten ? ’
14 ‘ Even if it had gone rotten . ’
15 He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face .
16 And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress
17 Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
18 She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning .
19 His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before .
20 He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong .
21 He would have been fighting blindly if he started proceedings without seeing the maintenance and servicing records of the fork-lift truck to see whether it had gone wrong before and what went wrong on this occasion .
22 Pakistan claim the ball was changed under Law 5 simply because it had gone soft — but that would not have needed the intervention of the match referee .
23 And it had gone bad .
24 Thought it had gone quiet for a s Have you put your tails on there yet ?
25 It had a house which once had a thatched roof , but it had gone derelict and a tree had started growing in the middle of it .
26 Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ?
27 ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent .
28 MAX : It 's gone gray .
29 Right Kyle because it 's gone eight go to bed !
30 Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are .
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