Example sentences of "[vb past] gone [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice .
2 And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship .
3 Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse .
4 She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards .
5 She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far .
6 Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny .
7 Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’
8 Last night he 'd gone a work .
9 we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting .
10 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
11 I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty .
12 When he 'd gone the Annamese woman turned to stare apprehensively at her husband .
13 With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went .
14 It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again .
15 He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly .
16 and digging stuff out of there then after he 'd gone the whole with all the dairy round it it was sprouting with er .
17 ‘ Yous all too late fer lunch , dat finished gone an hour ago , ’ she informed them in no uncertain terms .
18 But when all the people had gone no one laughed , and after a while no one spoke any more .
19 His feelings had gone no deeper than the surface .
20 He said that the economy was now stabilizing ; inflation had fallen to around 5 per cent , and unemployment had gone no higher than 2 per cent .
21 After they had gone no more than ten metres they were shot dead .
22 If the statutes had gone no further , it might have been said that the regime was simply trying to turn all serfs into " obligated peasants " ( in line with Nicholas I 's statute of 1842 ) .
23 Parker , Oakland 's starting pitcher , had gone a full eight innings before George Bell finally broke his hit-left streak by depositing the ball over the left-field fence .
24 The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground .
25 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
26 After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early .
27 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
28 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
29 In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing .
30 Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados .
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