Example sentences of "had gone [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 2 | The company pleaded guilty at Kirkby Magistrates ' Court to a total of 15 charges , including having for sale six packs of sausages containing fat which had gone rancid and two packets of meat contaminated by mould . |
| 3 | Land stewards had become autonomous , farm buildings had fallen into disuse , land had been poorly managed , properties had been allowed to run down and rents had gone unreviewed . |
| 4 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 5 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 6 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 7 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 8 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 9 | Theda had gone paler than usual , and she grasped at the bedpost for support . |
| 10 | Within two weeks , the Palmers brought Christopher to Ealing hospital , saying he had gone blue , stopped breathing and had blood round his nose . |
| 11 | Celia came down holding the baby , who had gone blue and stopped breathing . |
| 12 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 13 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 14 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 15 | Many teachers appeared to support this action because their complaints taken through the proper channels had gone unanswered . |
| 16 | All her pleas to Dana had gone unanswered . |
| 17 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 18 | Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 21 | The second of the new partners engaged in 1909 was Geoffrey Hobson , a brilliant scholar , who had gone deaf after passing exams both to the Bar and the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | I knew how the Hunchback of Notre Dame had gone deaf , with the tinnitus for ever in his head . |
| 23 | ‘ Dad , what if it had gone rotten ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Even if it had gone rotten . ’ |
| 25 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 26 | The laughter filled the room , it filled the shop , it even penetrated the wall into the tobacconist 's shop and made Arthur Conway wonder if the three old girls next door had gone barmy or taken to the bottle early in the day , for it was said that they took wine with their dinner . |
| 27 | Eventually , even her rage had gone flat and stale , leaving her with nothing but a sour taste in her mouth . |
| 28 | Unfortunately I ruined the film I I thought the film had erm wound on finished and it had and it the batteries had gone flat so it had n't , so I opened it and I lost all the . |
| 29 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 30 | Sutton , who had gone teetotal , refused . |