Example sentences of "it was go [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gone midnight , cold and autumnal , and they shivered in their denim jackets . |
| 2 | George Rudd was on tour ; Michael Lamonte , according to his lady friend , was filming at Pinewood ; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and was n't about to throw it up , thank you , for all the tea in China , and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight ? |
| 3 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 4 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 5 | And that 's the difference you see , it was gone day but dad 's is not . |
| 6 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 7 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |