Example sentences of "had gone into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elisabeth 's throat had gone into spasm and as she fought to inhale draughts of air she produced only a chilling , inhuman stertorousness . |
| 2 | If his mother and sisters had gone into sanctuary , what of the lady Anne ? |
| 3 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 4 | The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third . |
| 5 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 6 | Still only 24 , he was currently campaigning in the Low Countries , but once the allied army on the Continent had gone into winter quarters he was brought home and his arrival in England , on 19 October , caused morale to soar . |
| 7 | Given the fact that another property developer , and star of the bull market of the Nineties Mountleigh , had gone into receivership and that administrators have been appointed to the Canary Wharf project it could rank as one of the understatements of the 1992 financial year . |
| 8 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 9 | Colonel Gordon Wilkinson confirmed that the Army had gone into contract catering in a ‘ substantial way ’ , having let contracts to a variety of both large and small companies , including Gardner Merchant , Compass and Sutcliffe . |
| 10 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
| 11 | Richard saw , with reservations , where his duty lay , and put Dreadnought on the market through the agency of an old RNVR friend of his , who had gone into partnership , on coming out of the forces , as an estate agent in Halkin Street . |
| 12 | Shortly before that , I had gone into business with Mrs Edna Kirby , trading as KB Enterprises ( John Birch ) Ltd. , developing and producing a new type of UVA Sunbed . |
| 13 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 14 | His wife had gone into labour . ’ |
| 15 | One afternoon , when Hindley had gone into town , Heathcliff came into the main room after lunch . |
| 16 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 17 | He had gone into town on Friday afternoon to ‘ get out of the house ’ . |
| 18 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 19 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 20 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 21 | John Ashburnham , the friend of Charles I , had gone into exile on his patron 's death ; at the Restoration he returned to be given several signs of royal favour , particularly in leases of valuable property . |
| 22 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 23 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 24 | In a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard and Ceolwulf , bishop of Lindsey , written 793–6 , Charlemagne asked them to intercede with Offa for certain individuals who had gone into exile with their lord , Hringstan , who had now died . |
| 25 | Other Whigs had gone into exile , as too had some Nonconformists ; those who remained in England were either in jail or under such close government surveillance that they were in no position to offer a serious challenge to the new King . |
| 26 | When David had gone into consultation with the old man earlier , she had been instructed not to disturb them . |
| 27 | The cost of maintaining the waterway through the war on reduced Polish trade from the Russian and Austrian partition lands had been so high that the waterway had gone into decline . |
| 28 | Imagine our laughter when one of them told us her daddy had gone into hospital . |
| 29 | When Clemence had gone into hospital to have Emmie , she had cried because she was left alone with him . |
| 30 | Jean , who had been receiving fertility treatment , had gone into hospital for a scan but doctors decided to operate when she went into labour . |