Example sentences of "gone [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |
| 2 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 3 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 4 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 5 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 6 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 7 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 8 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 9 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 10 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 11 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 12 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 13 | That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation . |
| 14 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 15 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 16 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 17 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 18 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 19 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 20 | ‘ They will have gone down by the other side , ’ said Allan Stewart , ‘ it is their quickest way . ’ |
| 21 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 22 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 23 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 24 | Some churchmen have gone along with the new permissiveness by conceding that as long as two people love each other that is all that really matters . |
| 25 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 26 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 27 | Ritchie 's Eighth Army had gone over to the offensive and Rommel was in retreat towards Agheila . |
| 28 | ‘ Gone over to the other side ? ’ |
| 29 | Other imbibers have gone over to the dark side of beer , rejecting the pasteurised lager produced by the breweries . |
| 30 | Most colleges have now gone over to the modular system of teaching , which means you can achieve your degree ( or other qualification ) by combining the study of those subjects , however dissimilar , which interest you the most . |