Example sentences of "[verb] go a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 2 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 3 | I mean erm the , I mean , erm the closest I ever get to sort of news design is redesigning the Oxford University Press Gazette , and one of the first things when they said it 's got to go A four was well in that case you 've got to staple it , because you ca n't have thirty-two , sixty-four pages A four sort of doing that . |
| 4 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 5 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |