Example sentences of "gone a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 No , they have gone a bit cool towards her .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour .
3 ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour .
4 Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall .
5 Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years .
6 In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing .
7 And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship .
8 I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five .
9 Dad has gone a bit funny about sex .
10 ‘ He 's gone a bit quiet .
11 Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half .
12 I 've gone a bit mad about cleaning as my mother 's coming to stay this summer .
13 Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust .
14 She tried to sound flippant , though she suddenly wondered if she had n't gone a bit far .
15 Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it .
16 Ten forty five so we 've gone a bit .
17 " Gone a bit overboard this time , has n't he ?
18 Mind 's gone a bit , I suppose .
19 I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong .
20 Erm but I think it 's gone a bit too far the other way this time unfortunately .
21 Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’
22 I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit .
23 Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny .
24 Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’
25 Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk .
26 Ah , yo you 've got to wait for your cup of tea erm , they 've sort of gone a bit cold .
27 He 's gone a bit podgy in the face .
28 I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster .
29 I think Stuart 's gone a bit mad !
30 I , this one 's gone a bit strange , look at that , how you doing now , Kevin ?
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