Example sentences of "[vb past] gone [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 2 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 3 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 4 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 5 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 6 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 7 | Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk . |
| 8 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 9 | There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back . |
| 10 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 11 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 12 | But as of , as of nineteen forty eight forty nine , if you 'd said you 'd gone into a village , right you guys we 're going into socialism , we are gon na create collective farming the peasants would have said no . |
| 13 | Well we we 're going round Conways we sa , we 'd gone into a pub for erm we had sort of granary baps did n't we ? |
| 14 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 15 | For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma . |
| 16 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 17 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 18 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 19 | Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all . |
| 20 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 21 | Seth and Suzy Levine had gone through a lot together . |
| 22 | Stupid burk had gone on a crane like that |
| 23 | She hurried away through the swing doors , then out again to tell Dot , more kindly , that her brother had gone on a journey . |
| 24 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |
| 25 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1858 , Morris , Webb and Charles Faulkner had gone on a rowing trip down the River Seine , to look at medieval cathedrals . |
| 27 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |
| 28 | Dale 's father , Michael , said the family had gone for a day trip and returned early in the evening . |
| 29 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 30 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |