Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] gone [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been on the drawing board for some time now but has n't gone ahead because of lack of investment . |
| 2 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 3 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 4 | But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can . |
| 5 | The girl who worked the front of house had already gone home and Rose had to take the money out of the safe and open up the box office to give the patrons their money back . |
| 6 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 7 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 10 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 11 | Dierdriu , thought her granddaughter , had probably gone noisily and wantonly along brightly lit corridors , brandishing torches , attended by half the Court , very likely conducting a few odds and ends of State business along the way . |
| 12 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 13 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 14 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |
| 15 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 16 | She had n't gone far when she heard Nick wailing behind her , ‘ Carrie , wait for me , wait … ’ |
| 17 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | They had n't gone far when at the side of the road they saw a small boy . |
| 19 | She had n't gone far when Alain joined her , and he simply matched his pace to suit her own , saying nothing at all . |
| 20 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 21 | The light had quite gone now and they were bound together in the glow which came from the lantern above their heads . |
| 22 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 23 | Oh yes yes , but erm this we found wa always was the case with the er County Council Legal Department that er by the time they got round to it the people had either gone abroad or something had happened er |
| 24 | Problems have not gone away and all-round commitment is needed from everyone . ’ |
| 25 | 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 |