Example sentences of "[pers pn] had go [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it .
2 Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek .
3 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 .
4 Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring .
5 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 .
6 And then you got You had to go three times a week ?
7 We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d .
8 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 .
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