Example sentences of "had gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I wish I could remember the name of the functionary who pronounced on the news that a union vote had gone 70/30 , at least three to one in favour : I would gladly lend him my copy . |
| 32 | Peter 's mouth had gone dry . |
| 33 | Her mouth had gone dry again , fear writhed through her . |
| 34 | His mouth had gone dry . |
| 35 | Her throat had gone dry . |
| 36 | His penis had gone small . |
| 37 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 38 | I remember crying because my hands had gone numb from the damp cold . |
| 39 | I have never stopped caring about her … but I had gone numb . |
| 40 | Our hands had gone numb on the triggers of our weapons , and most of the staff , huddled against the wind under a group of scraggy pine trees , had lost their tempers due to our poor shooting . |
| 41 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 42 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 43 | He said the figure included people who no longer needed treatment , those who had gone private and failed to inform the health authority , and those who were reassessed . |
| 44 | He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face . |
| 45 | At this point Matilda noticed that Miss Honey 's face had gone all tight and peculiar-looking . |
| 46 | For a moment after she 'd come in her face had gone all stiff , as if she were trying not to cry . |
| 47 | Her stomach had gone all loose . |
| 48 | And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress |
| 49 | If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’ |
| 50 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 51 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 54 | We had gone two or three miles when he asked me what I did and how I came to be hitch-hiking . |
| 55 | Now Eleanor had gone one step further . |
| 56 | Repairs had gone unfixed , vermin roamed the old structures . |
| 57 | Only the faintest streaks of light were brightening the sky to the east , and by the time the two coolies had gone thirty or forty yards into the jungle , the overseer was lost to sight . |
| 58 | His voice had gone husky , his fingers were interlaced with mine . |
| 59 | Unfortunately , by 1846 they had gone bankrupt . |
| 60 | STRIKER David Hirst is back in business after believing his season had gone bankrupt . |