Example sentences of "gone [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murphy , whose face had gone through a perfect pantomime of reactions during her speech , now nodded silently , his complexion purple . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 3 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |
| 4 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 5 | Neo-suedehead singer Andy appears to have gone through a second puberty , his former growling style of delivery having fallen down an octave well and climbed out deeper and darker . |
| 6 | ‘ Some have even gone through a ghastly divorce lasting up to 18 months only to find they have to stay together . |
| 7 | Evode has gone through a sticky patch . |
| 8 | Hed gone through a sticky patch but he was a good player , and was signing from the runaway leaders of the division . |
| 9 | These cultures have gone through a major change such that the use of credit is now an accepted feature in managing personal expenditure patterns . |
| 10 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 13 | One feels that Nyerere was specifically addressing educated people like himself , who had come from different backgrounds , absorbed European culture and manners , discovered a common nationalist cause and gone through a political campaign successfully together , yet still knew relatively little about one another 's cultural traditions . |
| 14 | She must have gone through a terrible period in her life ; looking back , she genuinely believed it to be worse than it really was . |
| 15 | Suddenly the little girl lost , the lovable teenager , had gone through a startling catharsis . |
| 16 | This enabled each bottle to start in an almost horizontal position , but finish perpendicular having gone through a full 90° of movement without leaving the hole . |
| 17 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 18 | Insiders say UBS fixed-interest staff have gone through a considerable shake-up in recent months and Ben Allen had been increasingly unhappy . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | St Matthew 's School has gone through a difficult patch in the last few years . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |
| 22 | Cos we 've gone through a whole sort of full circle about taking a stance that 's very aggressive in terms of saying if we i i if we tender for something we 're gon na hit the client with V Os and this that and the other . |
| 23 | No I was wa er what what the other guys did he 's gone through a whole load of newspapers cutting peoples faces out |
| 24 | The thing has gone through a tidal change and we know pay attention to the views of women themselves . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period . |
| 27 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 28 | And they couldn't 've well for example with taxation , they could 've erm not taxed the rich peasants at all and then just put all their erm their sort of focus upon the poor peasants and got their income through them and also with land , they could 've just not given any land to poor peasants who were inefficient and given it all to the rich peasants and really gone for a capitalist state . |
| 29 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
| 30 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |