Example sentences of "gone [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I decided that if she had run away she must have gone somewhere where it would be very difficult to find her . |
| 2 | Everything has gone right since we came here , ’ said Denis who now has Wayne Swinscoe as a neighbour and occasional drinking partner . |
| 3 | The evening had gone downhill since she asked about the coat . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's getting worse ; she 'll be gone long before I will . |
| 5 | They had not been gone long when we sighted Gavin coming towards us . |
| 6 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 7 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |
| 8 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 9 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 10 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 11 | She should have gone away when she had the chance . |
| 12 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 13 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 14 | They Those would evaporate at the same rates , although that one would be gone sooner because there 's less off it . |
| 15 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 16 | And those have gone home while I 've been doing something else for them , they 've gone , and left me ! |
| 17 | He had gone early because he was going on a surveying job . |
| 18 | They had been visiting friends , they had enjoyed their evening and the time had gone quickly so it was rather late when they set off for home . |
| 19 | The week had gone quickly because she had been busy . |
| 20 | To avoid too much fuss , Anna had gone further than she intended , told her mother that she had seen Griselda 's corpse and talked to the offending motorist who had been very distressed . |
| 21 | Another , making a joke out of his poverty , hit a good drive and sighed , ‘ That 's gone further than I went on my holidays . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , the Ramblers Association has gone further than my hon. Friend has suggested in connection with that line , and has stated that , if British Rail increases the speed on a line , it will also be reducing the safety on it . |
| 23 | The lesser personalities — Clive , Anders , Amelia — were completely absorbed , gone forever unless he should choose to make the effort to reassemble them . |
| 24 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 25 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 26 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 27 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 28 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 29 | She had n't gone far when she heard Nick wailing behind her , ‘ Carrie , wait for me , wait … ’ |
| 30 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |