Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have go " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the fame of being a footballer has gone to his head . |
| 2 | Jilly Cooper had agreed to a revision of the promotional leaflet she featured in last year , and a mailing had gone out to every secondary and primary school in the UK . |
| 3 | out , it had blown and a flash had gone onto my cotton dressing gown my towelling |
| 4 | We phoned a good , dear friend who as a midwife had gone to much trouble and arranged to deliver the baby . |
| 5 | There was nothing obviously wrong — Albert sitting at one end of the table in front of his books and Hepzibah making an apple pie at the other , pressing the pastry top with a fork to make a frill round the edge — but it was as if a light had gone out . |
| 6 | It was as though a light had gone out somewhere inside of him . |
| 7 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 8 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 9 | A car had gone out of control on the slippery road . |
| 10 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 11 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 12 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 13 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 14 | Shiona felt as though a bomb had gone off in her face . |
| 15 | It 's a shame having to go that , that time of year every year |
| 16 | It felt as though a grenade had gone off in my head . |
| 17 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 18 | In the past month , not a day has gone by without national newspapers devoting reams of print to the issue , asking in big headlines , as Le Point put it , ‘ Should we let Islam colonise our schools ? ’ |
| 19 | Although the share of national wealth invested in education as a whole has gone down , taxpayer spending on publicity by the Department of Education and Science has risen in real terms since 1979 by no less than 28 times . |
| 20 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 21 | After about two hours , when one tractor and a bicycle had gone by , we stopped a pedestrian . |
| 22 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 23 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 24 | A complaint has gone to Ken Threlfall , general manager of the Durham county ambulance service , who promised to investigate . |
| 25 | What a cheer had gone up as the Englishman with Turtons ' file had filed the steel down to the vice before the Frenchman was one third the way through ! |
| 26 | Lee C.J. said , at p. 26 : ‘ There is no precedent , where a mandamus has gone to a visitor , to reverse his own sentence . ’ |
| 27 | During the past six months , hardly a week has gone by without yet another whisper about a sale from Saatchi 's collection . |
| 28 | HARDLY a week has gone by in recent months without some new development in home video . |
| 29 | But at an individual le level as well if you want , but no not kind of just it 's not a commitment to have to go away and do something next week . |
| 30 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |