Example sentences of "gone [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larry had gone beetroot-red like the soup , Lee saw , as he sat next to Philippa on the carpet , but Philippa herself was as alert as a newborn bird and was tickling his ankle with a silver-sandalled foot , excited by the nonsense , unafraid of the conflict . |
| 2 | After the Australians had gone Pommie-bashing with a humiliating 6-0 victory , Kerly said : ‘ I 'll play the last two remaining pool matches , and then that will be it . |
| 3 | I 'd only gone part of the way when I collided with Dad . |
| 4 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 5 | If both had gone part of the bridge would have dropped down . |
| 6 | It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality . |
| 7 | Gone contract to somebody I think |
| 8 | She , after all , had been left holding up the universe over the parents , and in all probability , whatever strict injunctions he issued now , she would , by the time he rejoined her , have relieved him of the most dreadful of all the duties his office laid on him , and somehow , with sense , sedatives and sturdy , unpretending sympathy , have gone part-way towards reconciling the bereaved to their bereavement . |
| 9 | New IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner has gone out-of-house for another top executive appointment , this time tapping one of his alma maters , American Express Co , for Abby Kohnstamm , named to the new post of vice-president , corporate marketing — her new responsibilities will include providing corporate oversight and leadership for all IBM advertising , promotion and sponsorships , overseeing use of IBM brand name worldwide , and the contributions programme also reports to her . |
| 10 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 11 | We 've gone town by town throughout the county showing what 's needed and how it could be doneHaving established how to do it , it now has to be done , and that means support , especially from the county council . |
| 12 | Well you could have gone sort of like round the Rainbow and that way on . |
| 13 | Yeah well I 'll be gone sort of half an hour . |
| 14 | the front wheel i , she 'd gone sort of along it an , and |
| 15 | The fire was still burning in the hearth ; all the draughts had long since been stopped ; but the room itself had gone chill around her . |
| 16 | There 's Techno in hardcore and commercial guises , there 's traditional soul singers gone dancefloor in Mass Order , gospel remixed in Sounds Of Blackness , there 's Italian , still popular and always liable to reduce the charts to linguini . |
| 17 | The starch in her collar had gone limp with the soaking . |
| 18 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 19 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 20 | ONE of Britain 's most prestigious property firms has gone bust with debts of £350 million . |
| 21 | Profits have plunged , and worse : 105 life insurers ( out of a total of around 2,600 firms ) and 74 property-casualty general insurers ( out of 3,800 ) have gone bust since the start of 1990 . |
| 22 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 23 | The holiday of a lifetime for a group of deprived schoolchildren may have to be cancelled because more than half of their business sponsors have gone bust in the recession . |
| 24 | As the new term is about to start , they 've been told that 6 of their 10 business sponsors have gone bust in the last 4 months . |
| 25 | ALMOST 270 small businesses have gone bust in Darlington since 1987 , Labour candidate Alan Milburn claimed yesterday . |
| 26 | He said Mr Fallon would better spend his time explaining why 300 businesses had gone bust in Darlington in the last year . |
| 27 | In nearby Camberley , the only fish and chip shop has gone bust after rents and business rates since 1990 . |
| 28 | ‘ D' you realize , ’ she spluttered , ‘ that your bulldozers have gone slap through the chief water main ? |
| 29 | Abandoning the English winter , Perdita realized she and Ricky had gone slap into the Argentine spring . |
| 30 | Promotion of the state-owned sector has generally gone hand in hand with promotion of the indigenous , i.e. African , private sector , although in ‘ socialist ’ countries the scope of the latter has sometimes been consciously restricted . |