Example sentences of "had gone some " in BNC.

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1 Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’
2 He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow .
3 She passed by the lifeguard , and after she had gone some three or four steps past him she turned her head , smiled , and waved to him .
4 When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around .
5 The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste .
6 By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment .
7 In Russia English merchants had gone some way south of Moscow , and trade was also being carried on in the Eastern Mediterranean or Levant .
8 When he had gone some distance from the houses he met a mysterious little girl , who suddenly.appeared from behind a rock , and said , " Why are you weeping , my brother ? "
9 But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite .
10 ‘ It was ’ , observes Marchbank , ‘ the Bucky Fuller version of Architectural Review : ’ Bizarrely , but appropriately for the times , the management wanted AD to look like Oz and Marchbank had gone some way to meet their specifications , but was not altogether happy in his work .
11 It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior .
12 Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone .
13 However , Jim Turle , the director of communications at Lang brothers , said that while Mr Lamont had gone some way to redressing the balance , he had by no means levelled the playing field .
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