Example sentences of "[verb] gone [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators .
2 Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way .
3 I fear it may have gone the same way as Honest John 's other great idea , the hard ecu .
4 The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible .
5 We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends .
6 The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground .
7 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
8 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
9 I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being .
10 Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types .
11 There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country .
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