Example sentences of "[vb past] gone [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps .
2 ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen .
3 Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’
4 Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her .
5 You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use
6 The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year .
7 She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening .
8 It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’
9 I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
10 Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway .
11 ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory
12 ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique .
13 She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’
14 Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah .
15 In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step .
16 Murphy , whose face had gone through a perfect pantomime of reactions during her speech , now nodded silently , his complexion purple .
17 Suddenly the little girl lost , the lovable teenager , had gone through a startling catharsis .
18 ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said .
19 Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light .
20 As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period .
21 By 1990 it had gone through the familiar process : what started as a compromising fudge had been rationalized as yet another creative act of policy , fitting in with its unique character to a harmonious pattern of public service broadcasting .
22 The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War .
23 By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ .
24 After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten .
25 You know you had gone through the whole C C Q and the priority was the pension , that 's what I got wrong .
26 The researchers had gone through the medical records for the whole period from 1959 , when Hinkley A was still being built , right through to 1986 .
27 I gently reeled in , got him to my hand and carefully removed the fly , which had gone through the thin beak membrane .
28 ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’
29 I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car .
30 The two countries had gone through an up-and-down relationship over natural gas exports from Iran to the USSR .
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