Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] go a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 2 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 3 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 4 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 5 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 6 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 7 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out . |