Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , before she 'd gone many yards she recollected herself and turned to the bystanders . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd say we 'd gone two miles , ’ Stephen said . |
| 3 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 4 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 5 | And then you got You had to go three times a week ? |
| 6 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 7 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 8 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 9 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 10 | Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek . |
| 11 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 12 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 13 | His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before . |
| 14 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 15 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 16 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 17 | But even if Fen had gone ten miles , she swore she would find him . |