Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] go a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Which I think goes a long way .
2 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
3 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
4 What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have
5 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
6 ‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’
7 He was pointing at his chest which had gone a bright shade of orange .
8 But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’
9 She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards .
10 But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus .
11 Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting .
12 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
13 She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own .
14 She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away .
15 It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting .
16 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
17 If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners …
18 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 .
19 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
20 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
21 I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints .
22 We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends .
23 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 .
24 Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’
25 We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said .
26 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
27 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 .
28 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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