Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she 'd gone out to get some shopping , he thought . |
| 2 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 3 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 4 | After preparing the drug , Murray had gone on to inject three men waiting in the bothy . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |