Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] go [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
2 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
3 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
4 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
5 | Jessica had deliberately gone the other way — she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties . |
6 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |