Example sentences of "gone [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took you for Adam , for he 's gone down Mountsorrel to fetch in some supplies . ’ |
| 2 | Gone down town to get a Butlin 's erm brochure , whatever they call it |
| 3 | So er says right , I 'll see you later , and just as we 'd gone away Joke got back out the car er , and she says do n't worry about the money . |
| 4 | He 's gone home sort of . |
| 5 | Nutty 's gone up north for more smelly Brits but I 'm not leaving my lovely villa and my roses so it 's civil war . |
| 6 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 7 | I think he 's gone up north . |
| 8 | Yeah , unless I du n no if she 's gone up home she 's getting a lift off erm thingummy |
| 9 | The package tour was not dead , it had gone up market and further afield . |
| 10 | Yes , of course — how silly of me , they 'd gone up market now , and it was funeral directors ' suppliers I needed . |
| 11 | ‘ But you could have gone back north . |
| 12 | Which ‘ here today , gone tomorrow politician ’ got up and went in 1982 ? |
| 13 | Giants like the Great Central Railway — in latter days known by its despairing appreciators as the Gone Completely Railway — and the Leeds Northern main line north of Harrogate , through Ripon , were two such casualties . |