Example sentences of "[Wh pn] 'd gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 2 | Mike , who 'd gone greener than the minted melon balls provided for pudding , and Perdita , who was lighting one cigarette from another , could n't eat a thing . |
| 3 | She was a tall , nervous woman who 'd gone grey early ; she always wore large bifocals and usually dressed in tweeds . |
| 4 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 5 | He says this morning one of our postmen was asked to work a different shift to cover for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |