Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] go a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash . |
| 2 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 3 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 4 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 5 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |