Example sentences of "gone [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 2 | He was gone perhaps for five minutes . |
| 3 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 4 | The princess , who heads the fund-raising Princess Royal Trust for Carers , said the medical profession and other agencies must realise the old family structures , which for centuries saw people looking after relatives without outside assistance , were gone probably for good . |
| 5 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 6 | Things had gone well for both families over the past few seasons and each farm was thriving . |
| 7 | The Public Security Ministry announced on June 25 that Fang and Li had been given " lenient treatment today " and had " gone abroad for medical treatment " . |