Example sentences of "[noun] had go [art] " in BNC.

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1 In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect .
2 The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way .
3 After Caretaker had gone the Inspector leaned back in his chair and stretched .
4 After the lunch guests had gone the house settled down into quiet .
5 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
6 As soon as Michele had gone the housekeeper began to help Luce off with her clothes .
7 Sims 's smile had gone a little rueful and he was looking down at his hands , turning a gold-tipped cigarette in his small fingers .
8 His feelings had gone no deeper than the surface .
9 If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) .
10 Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else .
11 Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’
12 By any statistical measure , the first week had gone the alliance 's way .
13 But when all the people had gone no one laughed , and after a while no one spoke any more .
14 The new German government had gone a stage further , adopting a target of a net reduction in C02 emissions of between 25 and 30 per cent by the year 2005 .
15 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
16 Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way .
17 He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent .
18 The fact that the party 's final net loss was only eight seats indicated that Clinton 's popularity had gone a considerable way towards offsetting the effects of reapportionment .
19 By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army .
20 The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground .
21 In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing .
22 Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados .
23 Tenison 's face had gone a blotchy pink ; his eyes were staring .
24 Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being .
25 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
26 A few battered English paperbacks had gone the rounds , and Anna had read them too .
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