Example sentences of "[noun] went [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 2 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 3 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 4 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 5 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 6 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |