Example sentences of "we go [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Are we going out a third time ?
2 We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call .
3 But I hope he will ; we go back a long way .
4 We go back a long way . ’
5 We go back a long way , he and I. "
6 ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’
7 I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are .
8 If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work .
9 This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed !
10 We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls .
11 We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more .
12 And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago .
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