Example sentences of "have gone [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the speaker has gone up a notch here to 10″ , with the dimension of the ports increased accordingly . |
| 2 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 3 | Things have really taken off , our whole output has gone up a notch . |
| 4 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 6 | His business has gone down a third . |
| 7 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 8 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 9 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 10 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 11 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 12 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 13 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 14 | However , there is 5000 tonnes a year of , presumably , both mildly and highly toxic wastes that appears to have gone down a hole somewhere — perhaps literally . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember wha exactly what it was but er it erm had gone up a little since erm , since I first started . |
| 16 | At ten P M she did n't seem too great either , her temperature had gone up a little bit , but nevertheless , she slept on . |
| 17 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 18 | It had gone down a lot though . |
| 19 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 20 | Gifford had gone overboard a bit in the blues though … |
| 21 | We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . |
| 22 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 23 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 24 | Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above . |
| 25 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |
| 28 | fags have gone up a penny . |
| 29 | Fred says to me fa fags have gone up a penny . |
| 30 | Yeah , it 's gone round a bit now . |