Example sentences of "[to-vb] gone [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope Huntley , who would very much have liked to have gone on with the discussion , found herself swept out of the office , and walked slowly down the road , flushed with a mixture of disappointment and excitement . |
| 2 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 3 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 4 | And , thought Dalgliesh , he was unlikely to have gone afterwards into the kitchen to wash . |
| 5 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 7 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 8 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 9 | Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man . |
| 10 | Numbers of Asian residents were said to have gone abroad during the election period , fearing violence , and the government was reported on Dec. 9 to have ordered the partial closure of the Ugandan and Somali borders . |