Example sentences of "[pron] have gone [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd gone for a walk .
2 I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’
3 I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away .
4 Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge .
5 ‘ I 'm afraid I 've gone on a bit , My Lord Chairman , ’ he said apologetically .
6 I 've gone on a bit but
7 So , I 've gone through a series of examples of exotoxins I want to just er , as far as is possible summarize the general properties of exotoxins .
8 Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ .
9 Dr John Little , president of the Cambridge club , said : ‘ I ca n't say unequivocally but I have gone through a history of the club and there is no mention of it there . ’
10 Like many others , I suspect , I have gone into a shop of whatever description linked to a current hobby , have asked a few pertinent questions , and have then exited clutching some new-bought kit .
11 someone 's gone for a swim
12 " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said .
13 An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home .
14 In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike .
15 Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits .
16 I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going
17 Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk .
18 But as of , as of nineteen forty eight forty nine , if you 'd said you 'd gone into a village , right you guys we 're going into socialism , we are gon na create collective farming the peasants would have said no .
19 For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma .
20 His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club .
21 she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months !
22 Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment .
23 She 'd gone for a walk .
24 You 've gone to a lot of trouble , ’ he said , opening it out .
25 You 've gone to a lot of trouble . ’
26 And we 've all been in situations where we 've walked into an area , whether it be , sort of a car park is poorly lit , or you 've gone down a lane that 's perhaps been overgrown by bushes and things like that we generally do n't feel as confident .
27 She had gone into a street shelter soon after the raid started at seven o'clock , and incendiaries , heavy bombs and parachute mines had fallen on the city and suburbs .
28 Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all .
29 Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders .
30 She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ?
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