Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] go a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints .
2 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
3 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 .
4 Naturally , he was speechless with rage and he seemed to go a funny colour , rather like the top range of a steel tempering chart — cherry red .
5 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
6 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
7 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
8 She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out .
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