Example sentences of "be go a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't park , a big car 's an advantage if you 're going a long way |
| 2 | You 're going a different way . |
| 3 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
| 4 | I 'm going a different way are n't I ? |
| 5 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 6 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 7 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 8 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 10 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 11 | They were going a good gallop all the way and it found him out . ’ |
| 12 | They were gone a long time . |
| 13 | the best thing to do , check with the Health Board , they 'll the only other way is to go a certain distance into nowadays |
| 14 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 15 | Well he 's going a good way of doing it is n't he |
| 16 | ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped . |
| 17 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 18 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |
| 19 | He was gone a fair while . |