Example sentences of "[vb past] go a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 2 | Naturally , he was speechless with rage and he seemed to go a funny colour , rather like the top range of a steel tempering chart — cherry red . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 5 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 6 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 7 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 8 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 9 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 10 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 11 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 12 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 13 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 14 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 15 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 16 | He was pointing at his chest which had gone a bright shade of orange . |
| 17 | Parker , Oakland 's starting pitcher , had gone a full eight innings before George Bell finally broke his hit-left streak by depositing the ball over the left-field fence . |
| 18 | Leeds , before the game , had gone a full season , plus three games without registering an away win — a total of 24 games . |
| 19 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |
| 20 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 21 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 22 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 23 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 24 | The fact that the party 's final net loss was only eight seats indicated that Clinton 's popularity had gone a considerable way towards offsetting the effects of reapportionment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Tenison 's face had gone a blotchy pink ; his eyes were staring . |
| 27 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |