Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] gone [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were out for lunch a few weeks ago , Alan asked where I was brought up and I said popped out on stalks two brothers had gone to school at . |
| 2 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 3 | His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black . |
| 4 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 6 | On March 23-24 over 1,000 demonstrators , many of them unemployed , looted supermarkets and shops owned by Lebanese traders in the economic centre of Port Gentil , where oil workers had gone on strike on March 21 . |
| 7 | When the troops had gone in 85% of the US population supported this . |
| 8 | In a year when all other parts of the charitable sector have been hit by the drop in disposable income , environmental charities have gone from strength to strength . |
| 9 | So far , about 40,000 workers have gone on strike in roughly 80 steel and engineering companies , most of them owned by western German firms or the Treuhand , the agency privatising east German industry . |
| 10 | Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour . |
| 11 | One in five parents and one in 10 children in homeless families had gone without food in the past month because of lack of money . |
| 12 | Two huntsmen have gone on trial on cruelty charges . |
| 13 | … and how many flats have gone to blacks in just the last few years ? |
| 14 | Up to 1,000 coalminers had gone on strike at the Valias mine near Tirana ( the capital ) on Jan. 11 . |
| 15 | That would be the normal price bracket for a Dior or Chanel creation — but now the supermodels have gone from catwalk to catalogue . |
| 16 | After student protests and looting on Jan. 18-19 , doctors and teachers had gone on strike in late February , demanding better pay and conditions ; they were joined by telecommunications workers and airport staff . |
| 17 | Some of Britain 's leading scientists have gone on strike over pay . |
| 18 | AN EVOCATIVE and touching exhibition of photographs and the writings of children has gone on display at the Central Library in Foyle Street . |
| 19 | Oh yes yes then after after the men had gone to bed of course . |
| 20 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 21 | Electricity was erratic in the old , two-up , two-down house and as often as not the children had gone to bed with candles . |
| 22 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 23 | Scottish ospreys have gone from strength to strength . |
| 24 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 25 | Three men have gone on trial for the killing of twin sisters who were trapped in a blazing barn . |
| 26 | Since then village children have gone by bus to the primary school in neighbouring Melbourne . |
| 27 | Bedpans had gone from earthenware to papier-mâché , bottles had progressed from glass to plastic , but there was the same kindly welcome , much the same decor except that the photo of George VI had been replaced by a poster on the etiquette of urinating . |
| 28 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 29 | In Britain alone , more than a hundred thousand jobs have gone from farming in the last five years . |