Example sentences of "gone a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 3 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 4 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |
| 5 | Erm but I think it 's gone a bit too far the other way this time unfortunately . |
| 6 | She tried to sound flippant , though she suddenly wondered if she had n't gone a bit far . |
| 7 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 8 | " Gone a bit overboard this time , has n't he ? |
| 9 | I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster . |
| 10 | Yes , well he could of gone a bit further back , it would n't of mattered to him . |
| 11 | deep cross coming in , brilliant header at the back post , Palace get a second goal and the scorer again is , uncovered at the back post , brilliant buildup down the left , superb finishing , the hero , Palace fans on their feet , Notts fans sit in silence , they trail two nil , with twenty minutes gone a push on , the referee looked across to the linesman on this nearside , Notts attacking the Lane end and the linesman said penalty , twenty one minutes gone here in this game , just a minute after scored . |
| 12 | ‘ We have gone a goal down in our last four games , so there is no easy game at this stage . |
| 13 | playing with it and stuff like , I think I should have gone a while ago , actually , |
| 14 | With all respect to my old friend , I believe my aims and basic purposes may have gone a mite deeper . |
| 15 | ‘ We have gone a step further , even starting some nests off by taping on twigs and other suitable material to the boxes . ’ |
| 16 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 17 | Some researchers ( for example , Bates 1976 ; Lock 1980a ) have gone a step further and proposed that the non-verbal communicative skills which are displayed in ‘ showing ’ and ‘ requesting ’ objects are direct precursors to the linguistic functions of ‘ telling ’ or ‘ giving information ’ and ‘ asking questions ’ . |
| 18 | MOST HISTORIANS simply rely on archives — Peter Wynne-Thomas has gone a step further by creating one . |
| 19 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 20 | Indeed , Polybius appears to have gone a step further . |
| 21 | 3M have gone a step further with the Privacy Plus Filter . |
| 22 | 3M have gone a step further with the Privacy Plus Filter . |
| 23 | The Labour party has had similar problems and has gone a step further . |
| 24 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
| 25 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up . |
| 26 | For Jeffery Taylor , arts correspondent for the Mail on Sunday claims the Northern Ballet Theatre has gone a touch too far . |
| 27 | The new German government had gone a stage further , adopting a target of a net reduction in C02 emissions of between 25 and 30 per cent by the year 2005 . |
| 28 | The saga of Hereford Cathedral 's Mappa Mundi has gone a stage further . |