Example sentences of "to have gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they , they had to improve the productivity from the land and im well not productivity , just efficiency generally , and that how that it would n't have made economic sense for them to have gone straight for socialism . |
| 2 | A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge . |
| 3 | The room seemed to have gone dark , as if someone had turned off the lights , and she wondered if she might be going to faint . |
| 4 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |
| 5 | I could barely speak at all ; the muscles in my face seemed to have gone rigid . |
| 6 | The passing of trains , however , on an hourly basis seems to have gone unnoticed too ! |
| 7 | But any minority that included Sir Stafford Cripps , who had succeeded Hugh Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 November 1947 , and Aneurin Bevan was unlikely to have gone unheard . |
| 8 | since 1987 , given that even double-glazing salesmen appear to have gone quiet in this recession and given that energy-efficiency investment not only helps the environment but protects the vulnerable and the old and creates hundreds of thousands of jobs , will the Government consider extending the exemption from stamp duty for all energy-efficient homes beyond August and perhaps indefinitely ? |
| 9 | ‘ Hyacinth seems to have gone mad . |
| 10 | The trail appears to have gone cold and it would be difficult now to resurrect it successfully , but the incomplete notes are available as received if anyone would like to look at them . |
| 11 | So come Monday morning , Sunday night in fact , Noel said gosh I can this is , this seems to have gone light . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid something seems to have gone wrong with the watch ’ |
| 13 | This incident seems to epitomise what is believed to have gone wrong with the Children 's Hearing system in Orkney . |
| 14 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 15 | The basic material of their relationship , the DNA itself , seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 16 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |