Example sentences of "he had gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 2 | Within two weeks , the Palmers brought Christopher to Ealing hospital , saying he had gone blue , stopped breathing and had blood round his nose . |
| 3 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 6 | Debbie 's husband would have cared if he had gone short , oh yes . |
| 7 | He had gone clean and sober with a fury , he swore , up at five-thirty every morning to work out at the Y , at his word processor to write by six-thirty , stopping only to watch CNN during lunch ‘ to connect with the world ’ . |
| 8 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 9 | He leaned heavily upon her arm , with a shambling lameness which was only half assumed , for he had gone barefoot for three weeks before he reached the refuge from which Iago had conveyed him west to Shrewsbury . |
| 10 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 11 | He had gone crazy ! |
| 12 | As soon as you had a break in your ploughing you 'd walk along the headlings to have a look at your neighbour 's work , to see where he had gone wrong , or if his ploughing was better than yours . |
| 13 | He had gone white , she remembered , had said he had made a terrible mistake . |
| 14 | She knew he did n't escape : perhaps he had gone mad , a gibbering idiot in the middle of that room , in the dark , with those doors opening and closing all around him . |
| 15 | Surrey had made 92 for three when Stuart suddenly declared — we thought he had gone mad . |
| 16 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 17 | Violet looked at Patrick as if he had gone mad . |
| 18 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |
| 19 | When he had gone some distance from the houses he met a mysterious little girl , who suddenly.appeared from behind a rock , and said , " Why are you weeping , my brother ? " |
| 20 | Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone . |