Example sentences of "had gone [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 8 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By any statistical measure , the first week had gone the alliance 's way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand . |
| 16 | Even Harvey — who had a dark complexion — had gone the colour of a boiled lobster . |
| 17 | A few battered English paperbacks had gone the rounds , and Anna had read them too . |
| 18 | As soon as Michele had gone the housekeeper began to help Luce off with her clothes . |
| 19 | After Caretaker had gone the Inspector leaned back in his chair and stretched . |
| 20 | After the lunch guests had gone the house settled down into quiet . |