Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adj] yard " in BNC.

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1 However , before she 'd gone many yards she recollected herself and turned to the bystanders .
2 Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards
3 Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek .
4 The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist .
5 There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass .
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