Example sentences of "have gone [adv] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him .
2 But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip .
3 He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death .
4 Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines .
5 And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards
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