Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] gone [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 2 | It makes sense that they would really have gone to town on the modifications . ’ |
| 3 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 4 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 5 | Realise that we should never have gone on holiday with Jack and Kate , but with Harry and Chrissie and their child . |
| 6 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 7 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |