Example sentences of "gone [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
| 2 | I saw from the clock that Ben had run 10.03 , not as fast as Carl , who had gone below ten seconds again . |
| 3 | The bus had gone only 150 yards before the mistake was realised . |
| 4 | I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’ |
| 5 | She had been gone nearly two hours and Sara decided that she was not going to walt up for her . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been gone nearly two years . |
| 7 | ello , correct , Malcolm has , er yeah gone about two minutes mate in fact wait , is that guy actually gone ? |
| 8 | We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . |
| 9 | THERE we were , an hour into our journey for lunch , and we had gone about four miles . |
| 10 | Do n't forget that clock 's gone about five minutes slow . |
| 11 | Nigger had gone about three feet in the air . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been gone almost two hours . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , I thought I was entitled to my share of what he had , for from the time I 'd gone there five years before , I 'd pulled the business up out of nothing . |