Example sentences of "had gone [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 3 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step . |
| 7 | Murphy , whose face had gone through a perfect pantomime of reactions during her speech , now nodded silently , his complexion purple . |
| 8 | Suddenly the little girl lost , the lovable teenager , had gone through a startling catharsis . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You know you had gone through the whole C C Q and the priority was the pension , that 's what I got wrong . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I gently reeled in , got him to my hand and carefully removed the fly , which had gone through the thin beak membrane . |
| 19 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 20 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 21 | The two countries had gone through an up-and-down relationship over natural gas exports from Iran to the USSR . |
| 22 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 23 | Yesterday Miss Stott 's grandparents said they believed she and her boyfriend , Peter Ellis , originally from Tyneside but working as a computer analyst in New Zealand for the past 18 months , had gone on the three-week holiday in order to get engaged and to share their love of jazz . |
| 24 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 25 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
| 26 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 27 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 28 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 29 | In a general election on April 20 the largest of the four main parties , the conservative pro-European Communities Independence Party ( IP ) , recovered the votes which had gone to a breakaway liberal Citizens ' Party ( CP ) in the April 1987 elections [ see pp. 35138-39 ] , giving it twice the representation of the next-largest party . |
| 30 | Maybe it was because he had gone to a private high school . |