Example sentences of "gone [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er pie , chips and peas , hot actually , bread roll and butter , for one ninety nine , I was n't half pleased , well that just suit us cos it , we would have gone somewhere else and had coffee and a cake it would of cost you , one fifty each |
| 2 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 3 | Would this have gone on forever if a grey-eyed inglésa had not stormed into our lives ? ’ |
| 4 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 5 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 6 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 7 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 8 | Some have gone much further and postulated a grid covering the whole of the Earth 's surface . |
| 9 | Neo-Marxists have gone much further and tend to claim that , in advanced capitalist societies , the state and its various bureaucracies have distinctive levels of relative autonomy from the different fractions of the bourgeoisie and , indeed , on occasion state functionaries can successfully play off one section of the bourgeoisie ( as well as competing classes ) against others , domestically or transnationally , in their own interests . |
| 10 | So far things had gone much better than she had expected . |
| 11 | The last of the swallows had gone long ago and now the black outline of rooks could be seen flying around the ploughed fields looking for grubs . |
| 12 | They did not pause in what they were doing , but all three of them knew , by the colour of the sky , by the beginnings of an unmistakeable pull around their hearts , that Alice had been gone long enough and would — must — soon be home again . |
| 13 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 14 | There you 've heard allegations from Les , you should have gone down there and said to him ‘ get off . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd just gone down there because er . |
| 16 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 17 | Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out . |
| 18 | ‘ Our preparations have gone so well that none of us can wait to get there and begin in earnest . |
| 19 | But things have gone so well that by June 1993 he hopes to launch a further 20 growers . |
| 20 | Piers turned around to face her , and for a split second his glance swept over her with appreciation , but the moment was gone so quickly that she thought she must have imagined it . |
| 21 | ‘ We have work to do and it is essential that there are no distractions , ’ says Coleman , ‘ I am happy the way our build-up has gone so far but the next ten days or so are obviously the most important in terms of morale and motivation . ’ |
| 22 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 23 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 24 | It was the first time that the chubby presenter , the ravages of drink clear in the dark bags under his eyes , had ever gone so far and admitted in public his total dependence . |
| 25 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 26 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 27 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 28 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 29 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 30 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |