Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] go [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we go back an awful long way do n't we ? |
| 2 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 3 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 4 | But it was worse before , after I had a shower it went down a bit , but it was really red and . |
| 5 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 6 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 7 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |