Example sentences of "had gone mad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being Irish herself , and the sister of a man who had gone mad with syphilis , she was rather more tolerant of Warnie 's foibles than he was of hers . |
| 2 | He wondered if Lee had gone mad . |
| 3 | Caspar had gone mad , leaping all over the beet and sending it rolling . |
| 4 | She knew he did n't escape : perhaps he had gone mad , a gibbering idiot in the middle of that room , in the dark , with those doors opening and closing all around him . |
| 5 | This had to mean , she felt , that she had gone mad because , as she saw it , there could be no other explanation . |
| 6 | Ferdinando stared at her as though she had gone mad . |
| 7 | Having felt pain , I knew I was not dreaming , and I wondered if I had gone mad , though the fact that I had hallucinated , and had shown myself to have such a naive view of God , would be sufficient proof for some . |
| 8 | A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness : |
| 9 | Others said that Clinker had gone mad at the fusing point and could n't restrain himself . |
| 10 | Surrey had made 92 for three when Stuart suddenly declared — we thought he had gone mad . |
| 11 | I was wondering if the world had gone mad . |
| 12 | Mrs Stych opened her eyes slowly and looked at him as if he had gone mad . |
| 13 | Lighting the last of her cigarettes , she inhaled deeply The world had gone mad , with every capital city in Europe occupied by strutting Nazis . |
| 14 | It was as if , after years of having no furniture at all , Sarah had gone mad for it . |
| 15 | Violet looked at Patrick as if he had gone mad . |
| 16 | It seemed that the whole country had gone mad clamouring to put money into the new transport system which was destined to make fortunes for its investors . |
| 17 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 18 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |
| 19 | If the former administrator had gone mad , then the passion that possessed him had more to do with the re-establishment of the New Thinking in a new place , rather than any desire for vengeance . |
| 20 | Luke was still staring at her as if she had gone mad . |
| 21 | Behind him he could hear one of the boys mutter that Mr Wilson had gone mad , and another reply that he always had been . |