Example sentences of "[verb] gone [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |
| 2 | Evode has gone through a sticky patch . |
| 3 | The thing has gone through a tidal change and we know pay attention to the views of women themselves . |
| 4 | St Matthew 's School has gone through a difficult patch in the last few years . |
| 5 | Since Washington imposed economic sanctions on Panama last year , its economy has gone into a steep decline . |
| 6 | Rutger here has gone for a tight , hard , back pickup sound ideally suited to the staccato style he uses , and note the contrast between the sparse verse and much busier chorus patterns . |
| 7 | This applies even if one of you , unknown to the other , has gone on a mad spending spree . |
| 8 | ‘ One has gone to a better place without the other and that 's hard for the living who are left behind . |
| 9 | Since Fizz has gone to a better place and Bunny has n't been around , it 's improved immeasurably . |
| 10 | This is the first time this major title has gone to a coloured paddler and so is of great significance to those who think that canoeing is a whites-only sport . |
| 11 | In the last twelve months , the number of heterosexuals contracting AIDS has gone from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
| 12 | In the two years since the idea of a European bank was first mooted , the Soviet Union has gone from a net contributor to the bank 's budget to potentially its largest beneficiary . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 14 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 15 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 16 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 17 | Like , in England we 'd never have gone to a domestic dispute unless a crime had been committed . |
| 18 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 19 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 20 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 21 | But Viola had reassumed all her wonted , iron-clad voluptuousness , and only her reddened eyes — had they , Greg wondered , been rubbed since she saw him coming up the path ? — suggested that she might have gone through a frightening or saddening time . |
| 22 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 23 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 24 | ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive . |
| 25 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 26 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |
| 27 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 28 | This enabled each bottle to start in an almost horizontal position , but finish perpendicular having gone through a full 90° of movement without leaving the hole . |
| 29 | Neo-suedehead singer Andy appears to have gone through a second puberty , his former growling style of delivery having fallen down an octave well and climbed out deeper and darker . |
| 30 | His mind seemed to have gone into a paralysing panic . |