Example sentences of "have go [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 3 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 6 | We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . |
| 7 | Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above . |
| 8 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 11 | 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 ! |