Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road . |
| 2 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 3 | Four Hearts , on the other hand , was not a success although the play did not go quite as you might think . |
| 4 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 5 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 6 | Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel . |
| 7 | But we had already gone further than that and use child resistant caps on products wherever we can . |
| 8 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 9 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 10 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 11 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 12 | Sarah was worried because it was getting late , and when at last she was out of the hospital she started walking quickly towards Clerkenwell , but she had n't gone far before a hackney cab drew up . |
| 13 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 14 | She had n't gone far when she heard Nick wailing behind her , ‘ Carrie , wait for me , wait … ’ |
| 15 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 16 | They had n't gone far when at the side of the road they saw a small boy . |
| 17 | She had n't gone far when Alain joined her , and he simply matched his pace to suit her own , saying nothing at all . |
| 18 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 19 | That 's why we went on to Seattle and Phoenix and worked our way back east again through the south , through Texas , Florida and Tennessee and it ended up going more than twice its length because of the success of the show . |