Example sentences of "had gone [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 3 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 4 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 5 | He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face . |
| 6 | At this point Matilda noticed that Miss Honey 's face had gone all tight and peculiar-looking . |
| 7 | For a moment after she 'd come in her face had gone all stiff , as if she were trying not to cry . |
| 8 | Her stomach had gone all loose . |
| 9 | And when we looked it all er all , it had gone all the way through the mattress |
| 10 | If anyone except the Lorrimores had gone that way and come back again … well … we would have noticed . ’ |
| 11 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 12 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Overall , though , Mr Oswick said he was happy with the way things had gone this Bonfire Night . |
| 16 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |
| 17 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 18 | She passed by the lifeguard , and after she had gone some three or four steps past him she turned her head , smiled , and waved to him . |
| 19 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 20 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |
| 21 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 22 | In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant . |
| 23 | When he had gone some distance from the houses he met a mysterious little girl , who suddenly.appeared from behind a rock , and said , " Why are you weeping , my brother ? " |
| 24 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 25 | ‘ It was ’ , observes Marchbank , ‘ the Bucky Fuller version of Architectural Review : ’ Bizarrely , but appropriately for the times , the management wanted AD to look like Oz and Marchbank had gone some way to meet their specifications , but was not altogether happy in his work . |
| 26 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 27 | Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone . |
| 28 | However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field . |
| 29 | Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally . |
| 30 | ( ROS had gone half way up to OPHELIA ; he returns . ) |