Example sentences of "[noun pl] had go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 2 | Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ? |
| 3 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 4 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 5 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 6 | The timing was very appropriate because the majority of Council Tax bills had gone out . |
| 7 | The Secte Rouge guards had been charging the Marines with their machetes , to little effect , though a couple of Marines had gone down . |
| 8 | At the end of the first week in March , 260,000 applications had gone through . |
| 9 | The occasion was an immediately recognisable lunch party , after which Comfort and some of the other guests had gone off to swim in the nearby river , while Anthony and Julia had sat together , digesting and beginning to explore the edges of the feeling that was growing between them . |
| 10 | In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 . |
| 11 | While books abound about American pilots and their P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses , very few books are written about the training that these pilots had to go through before being sent out to fight . |
| 12 | Sometimes they also carried stars because , at night , after one of the cloud towers had gone up , the nomes could sometimes see new stars moving across the sky . |
| 13 | Er we went through just after it , the rest of the troops had gone through , we followed them on . |
| 14 | By now , almost eight years had elapsed since the birth of the Directive , and three years had gone by since the nitrate limits were supposed to have been complied with . |
| 15 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 16 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 17 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 18 | Not for Fergie creeping to her seat with her escort after the lights had gone down and slipping out again just before the final curtain . |
| 19 | He said 300 similar small businesses had gone out of business in Darlington since the last election . |
| 20 | As it happens we got that shipment delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off . |
| 21 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 22 | And sometimes you used to things had gone up , you were lucky in that way . |
| 23 | other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right |
| 24 | I got , I got the impression that he was fairly exasperated at the way things had gone up to now . |
| 25 | Of course the orders had gone out — she herself had been one of the recipients . |
| 26 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 27 | During the past two or three years more wives had gone out to work usually as a result of increased economic Pressures on the farm . |
| 28 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 29 | Instructions had gone out from on high that the boat was not to be rocked , and Margaret Thatcher was as good as her word . |
| 30 | He was expecting the ‘ target ’ to enter his ‘ field of jurisdiction ’ sometime late that evening , and his instructions had gone out . |