Example sentences of "[pers pn] had gone [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 2 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 3 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 4 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 5 | Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm , does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment ? |
| 6 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then she had gone into the garden and played cricket with Oliver , running up and down and laughing very loudly so that they should hear her next door and know she was n't tired at all . |
| 10 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 11 | Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all . |
| 12 | Each month , for as long as Peter could remember , she had gone through the bank statement and done the accounts . |
| 13 | It would hardly cross his mind that she had gone past the point of that to something altogether more serious and far less retrievable . |
| 14 | Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 17 | She had gone for a walk up the road , beside a field of sunflowers , and although the sun had not yet risen she could sense the whole field turning away from her and each flower raising its face towards the eastern hills over which the sun would shortly leap . |
| 18 | However , on the advice of an acquaintance , she had gone to a clinic in Pennsylvania : she retired there periodically now . |
| 19 | His mother was not yet in ; presumably she had gone to a party . |
| 20 | One of the middle-aged women who kept the shop had ordered a set of posters about the Paris rising of May 1968 , because she had gone to the Sorbonne to study when she was a girl . |
| 21 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 22 | She had gone to the village — as Vivien had later gone — to use the public phone-box outside the Fir Tree . |
| 23 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 24 | She was beginning to wish she had gone to the toilet again on the plane — it had been so nice and clean , and who knew when she would get another chance ? |
| 25 | She had gone to the cloakroom at the back of the building to put on her white coat and he had gone to the box in Chief Inspector Martin 's office to switch off the system which protected the inner doors of the main Laboratory rooms . |
| 26 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 27 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |
| 28 | She had gone to the library and borrowed all the books she could find on accountancy , bookkeeping and running a business . |
| 29 | She had been angry at first , then disbelieving , but finally she had gone to the aerodrome to see the padre , begging him for news of Rob . |
| 30 | Lamont told how she had gone round the dining room at breakfast handing out brochures about her Foundation . |