go
verb (used without object)
to move or proceed, especially to or from something.
had gone
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past perfectof go.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Pomona, where he had gone to be fingerprinted for his visa application.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Everything I thought I wanted to say about war in ‘Devil’s Backbone’ seemed obsolete, because we had gone through 9/11 and the world had changed,” Del Toro recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Mathew said the "strain" of what he had gone through had been a burden on him for the last 10 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
She said they had gone to see “Schindler’s List” and the Dallas Holocaust museum: “It was divine intervention that she was brought into my life,” she said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Was she thinking about the day her high school geography class had gone to Womengo on a field trip?
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
