Example sentences of "had gone [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | If both had gone part of the bridge would have dropped down . |
| 5 | When it had gone midnight Lowell knew she was n't coming . |
| 6 | This implied an underlying ex-rights price of 195p after the old shares had gone ex-dividend . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago they had gone sky high . |
| 8 | The Gruntes had gone thehere was Hyacinth Scragg . |
| 9 | It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality . |
| 10 | Needless to say the revelations made by John Stalker ( 1988 ) were also less than welcome to the service , and all around I heard my contemporaries condemn the fact that he had gone public . |
| 11 | McDermott , who as a lower order batsman was a prime target in a ‘ bumper ’ war between the two sides in 1991 , said he had gone public with his allegations after reading Richards ' recent autobiography , ‘ Hitting Across the Line . ’ |
| 12 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 13 | Like himself , Alexander was a clerk who served the King , even following him to England when the late Scottish King had gone south to attend the coronation of Edward I. Corbett let him ramble on while the gambling group broke up amidst loud shouts and farewells , and a harassed servant brought Corbett a cloak . |
| 14 | And I looked up and the sea had gone calm . |
| 15 | There had been one or two Earth stories of how warriors going into battle had gone shoulder to shoulder , which had always seemed a rather odd expression , but which suddenly made sense . |
| 16 | Springfield 's faded blue eyes had gone flint hard as he spoke . |
| 17 | On day one the angels had gone blotchy , the butterflies off their food , so I treated the tank with copper . |
| 18 | By the time the old boy got home , his hair had gone snow white . |
| 19 | And the paragraph , composed after he had gone limp , would surely demonstrate to any reader that he , the writer , was temperamentally incapable of doing all the things he had so unwisely confessed to Robert . |
| 20 | The starch in her collar had gone limp with the soaking . |
| 21 | Maybe Daine had gone dybbuk and passed into another body . |
| 22 | Abandoning the English winter , Perdita realized she and Ricky had gone slap into the Argentine spring . |
| 23 | My father-in-law had moved the money into the Pyramid Building Society in Melbourne , which was offering the best interest rates available at the time , and it had gone bust . |
| 24 | For it would effectively mean that Britain had gone bust . |
| 25 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 26 | Their business had gone bust and all the money left went on the mortgage . |
| 27 | Since then Allison Gregg and Alan Neale have changed solicitors twice , and even won a court order against the developer , awarding them £51,000 , money they did n't get because the developer had gone bust . |
| 28 | He said Mr Fallon would better spend his time explaining why 300 businesses had gone bust in Darlington in the last year . |
| 29 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 30 | When he had gone Rain said : ‘ At least we know why Joseph did n't want a lift back to the boat . |