Example sentences of "gone [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 2 | Oh he 's out the car , he 's probably gone to sit on the bench . |
| 3 | And when , lunch over , they had gone to sit in the garden of the Lur Inn and the Colonel removed his jacket , Elisabeth was equally impressed by the pullover he was wearing . |
| 4 | Alderson is revealingly described : ‘ poor old John Alderson [ has ] gone careering off the rails , [ and is ] now shacked up with the liberal party … an intellectual liberal reformer with radical ideas [ whose ] philosophical mumbo jumbo , often incomprehensible , and not very original , did nothing to impress ’ . |
| 5 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 6 | O'Hara had risen and gone to stand at the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | Then she closed the door behind them both , and moved to confront him where he had gone to stand by the desk , clearly nervous . |
| 8 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 9 | And gone to work for the opposition . |
| 10 | Er my brother John had been er gone to work for the Bank in and unfortunately was drowned in an accident when he was not quite twenty . |
| 11 | Within the last few years thousands of Goans have gone to work in the Gulf states . |
| 12 | I 've bothered , I 've gone looking for the child inside myself . |
| 13 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |
| 14 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 15 | Yeah it was , it , well what happened is , was , that he on Sun on the Sunday gone swimming with the boys in the morning |
| 16 | Her right arm had gone to sleep below the tourniquet . |
| 17 | What with hauling carpets in and out , cleaning the wallpaper with a loose dough — a trick Sally-Anne found oddly satisfying , if messy — washing every curtain , sheet , blanket , cushion-cover , piece of crockery , floorboard , door and window-frame , ceiling — you name it , Sally-Ann cleaned it — by Sunday she felt quite stunned and had gone to sleep during the rector 's sermon , only to be prodded awake by Matey , to a smiling Dr Neil 's amusement . |
| 18 | That second time Charlie 'd pulled into a lay-by and gone to sleep at the wheel . |
| 19 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 20 | I had gone to sleep with the sound of the sea filling the night with subdued song . |
| 21 | Presently the port was gone and the fire gone and Tuppe had gone to sleep in the portmanteau . |
| 22 | ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed . |
| 23 | Nottingham Crown Court heard that Allitt had gone to live at the Jobson home in 1991 . |
| 24 | Problems had eased between them when Lori had left home to make her career in modelling , and Paige had actually thought they would end completely when Lori had married a wealthy American and gone to live in the States . |
| 25 | She had gone paddling in the beck with him while his nanny and her Uncle Edgar took off giggling into the woods . |
| 26 | After Allitt 's arrest in May , she had been released on police bail and gone to stay with the family of a fellow nurse and former flatmate , Tracey Jobson , in Peterborough . |
| 27 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 28 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 29 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 30 | Recently Viking Mbus modules , Sparcstation 10 memory and 500 Sparc 2 boards have gone missing from the warehouse . |