Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] gone a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
2 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
3 What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have
4 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
5 She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards .
6 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
7 She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own .
8 She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away .
9 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
10 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
11 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
12 We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends .
13 If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye .
14 Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’
15 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
16 After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early .
17 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
18 Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse .
19 As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out .
20 Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour !
21 ‘ No , I 've still got Dad , but he does n't count for much now , poor love , he 's gone a little bit silly . ’
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