Example sentences of "had [adv] gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 2 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 5 | 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 . |