Example sentences of "gone [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Anyhow , he was gone that weekend ;
2	He 's only just gone that feller .
3	The trail seemed obvious enough , but my intended killer had come and gone that way — must have done — and if he should return for any reason I would n't want to meet him .
4	‘ They have gone that way , ’ he said , pointing up the path , ‘ but someone has lain here … ’
5	If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’
6	But things had not gone that way .
7	Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting .
8	Pool may well have gone that way had Gibson , Knowles and Murray not worked their wonders .
9	She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way .
10	Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
11	I 'd already gone that way twice .
12	If you 'd gone that way .
13	He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’
14	And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour .
15	But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year .
16	Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek .
17	The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist .
18	At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times .
19	I 've gone bloody back down to the bottom !
20	gone bloody mildew and she has home made is n't it ?
21	Anyway , they 've gone this hour . ’
22	Gone this year are the pools , dripping fountains , occasional pieces of statuary , scraps of lawns and peach-coloured awnings screening off the magnificent metal vault of the Grand Palais .
23	Apart form requiring a certain amount of self-discipline from those doing it ( and when the legality of remote logging of work-rate seems doubtful under the health and safety laws for VDU operators ) , the tasks which seem capable of being gone this way seem to boil down to two types : self-contained project assignments ( computer programming , report writing , design ) and batch-related clerical work ( data entry or telesales ) .
24	I 'm glad it 's th gone this way and not the other way .
25	Overall , though , Mr Oswick said he was happy with the way things had gone this Bonfire Night .
26	United have recruited three new players … who should form the backbone of a new look team … five have gone this summer … all given away except for Robinson who 's career has been finished by injury …
27	So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time !
28	Erm it 's gone this time .
29	Can I just say a conclusion I 'm not sure how you feel how the meeting 's gone this evening I think it 's been very positive meeting at least people have actually said what there concerns are and actually raised eh , some , some of the issues .
30	I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go .

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