Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] go [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 2 | Gordon Mahoney had gone home about an hour ago . |
| 3 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 4 | Battle ‘ You ca n't be disappointed by a run like that , ’ said the jockey after User Friendly 's head-to-head battle with Subotica had gone so narrowly the wrong way for her army of fans . |
| 5 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 6 | Perhaps Friday wanted to go home too . |
| 7 | Now Malekith had gone too far . |
| 8 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 9 | Fred had gone too far , had widened the discourse unfairly . |
| 10 | Mrs Brooks wondered who this morning 's visitor was , and where Mrs d'Urberville had gone so early . |
| 11 | Frank wanted a bawdy stage comedy transferred to film ; Lester wanted to go more deeply into the subject , the cruelties and shabbiness of first century Rome . |
| 12 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 13 | For once , Dr Neil , engrossed in drinking his coffee , did not notice that McAllister had gone very still . |
| 14 | But Harding was rallying his faculties fast ; I was certain Lawrence had gone too far this time . |
| 15 | She felt that Maggie Gibbs had gone too far . |
| 16 | When he publicly questioned Truman 's decision not to use Chinese Nationalist troops in Korea , Truman decided the pretensions of his Caesar had gone far enough . |
| 17 | George had gone there straight from Operation Conversion Unit . |
| 18 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 19 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 20 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 21 | S. Kettering had gone too far . |
| 22 | Isabel had gone very still , almost forgetting to breathe . |
| 23 | Roman had gone very still , revealing no reaction whatsoever . |
| 24 | Liu Chang had gone very still . |
| 25 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |