Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] go a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which I think goes a long way . |
| 2 | What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have |
| 3 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He was pointing at his chest which had gone a bright shade of orange . |
| 6 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 7 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 10 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 11 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |
| 27 | Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour ! |
| 28 | I think he 's gone a dumb . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I 've still got Dad , but he does n't count for much now , poor love , he 's gone a little bit silly . ’ |