Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] gone [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 2 | If only there is a way — ’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door . |
| 3 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 4 | So you wish a dozen anti-Fascists had gone to the hospital , do you ? ’ |
| 5 | It was held that this was insufficient information to give an arrestee , and the constable who arrested in those circumstances had gone beyond the scope of his duty since he was exercising his admitted power improperly . |
| 6 | The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities . |
| 7 | The ICRC in Geneva denied allegations that the ICRC delegates had gone beyond the limits of their competence within the Geneva conventions . |
| 8 | Senior mandarins had gone to the trouble of finding accommodation for Labour 's promised Ministry for Women . |
| 9 | Rhoda said to Bruno that perhaps all Wendy 's brains had gone into the baby . |
| 10 | The one disappointment for the group was in finding that all the bananas had gone by the time they got in . |
| 11 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 12 | Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send . |
| 13 | Even the hobby horse and the toy puppets had gone from the windows , leaving only the plastic holly behind . |
| 14 | Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof . |
| 15 | How many ships had gone to the bottom of the sea ? |
| 16 | Banks now opened on Saturdays because the building societies had gone on the attack . |
| 17 | cos the men had gone to the services . |
| 18 | The men had gone to the barn as a trio for a purpose , they stayed as a trio when they told a false story to the police . |
| 19 | The twins and three men had gone to the barn after an evening in a pub . |
| 20 | The police had gone to the house and had entered the flat rented to the dead woman . |
| 21 | Three days into the election , when the main polling stations closed ( leaving another three days for mobile ones to travel around the countryside ) , 85% of the 4.7m registered voters had gone to the polls . |
| 22 | The turnout in Germany as a whole was 77.8 per cent ; that in western Germany was 78.6 per cent ( as compared with 84.3 per cent in 1987 — see pp. 35014-15 ) ; that in eastern Germany ( where voters had gone to the polls three times in the previous nine months — see pp. 37300-03 ; 37467 ; 37762 ) was 74.7 per cent . |
| 23 | Every day , he asked if any seamen had gone along the road . |
| 24 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 25 | First and foremost , going to the races had gone to the team 's collective head and with Master James as a media star — and few have known how to manipulate the press with such skill , to make so many journos think they were ‘ particular ’ friends or to understand the voracity of Fleet Street 's sports editors ' avidity for upbeat Brit stories — the Hesketh operation became something of a Back Britain campaign , with patriotism overcoming business common sense . |
| 26 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 27 | Wolves had gone into the match halfway down the table and seven points adrift from the top six . |
| 28 | The prosecution say the three men and the twins had gone to the barn for sexual activity . |
| 29 | The women and children were back in our office , and a sister of one of the victims had gone into the bush , in her grief , searching for a sign of them . |
| 30 | The word on the streets of Galway last week was that hardware manufacturing with its 800 jobs had gone by the wayside . |