Example sentences of "gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 4 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 5 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 6 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 9 | No , they have gone a bit cool towards her . |
| 10 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 11 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour . |
| 14 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 15 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 16 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 17 | Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years . |
| 18 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 19 | In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 22 | In terms of the Midlands ' representation in the Premier League the game was wasted as Notts County 's victory is unlikely to save them while the three points would have gone a long way to ensuring Coventry 's place . |
| 23 | Mr Michael Lyons , duty administrator at Guy 's , said they looked as if they had ‘ gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ We have gone a step further , even starting some nests off by taping on twigs and other suitable material to the boxes . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 26 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 27 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 28 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |
| 29 | Tenison 's face had gone a blotchy pink ; his eyes were staring . |
| 30 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |