Example sentences of "had gone [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 2 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 3 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 4 | Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek . |
| 5 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 6 | If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’ |
| 7 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 10 | Now Eleanor had gone one step further . |
| 11 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 12 | Overall , though , Mr Oswick said he was happy with the way things had gone this Bonfire Night . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 15 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 16 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 17 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |
| 18 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 19 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 20 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 23 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 24 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 25 | ‘ It was ’ , observes Marchbank , ‘ the Bucky Fuller version of Architectural Review : ’ Bizarrely , but appropriately for the times , the management wanted AD to look like Oz and Marchbank had gone some way to meet their specifications , but was not altogether happy in his work . |
| 26 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 27 | Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone . |
| 28 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 29 | 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 ? " |
| 30 | ( ROS had gone half way up to OPHELIA ; he returns . ) |