Example sentences of "go [adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
2 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
3 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
4 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
5 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
6 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
7 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
8 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
9 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
10 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
11 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
12 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
13 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
14 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
15 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
16 | so she goes back a long way . |
17 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
18 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
19 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
20 | And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform . |
21 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |
22 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
23 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
24 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |
25 | Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort . |
26 | That the , that the erm , right , erm , you can go back a fair ways earlier and already find people thinking that you can be transported from one body to another , or even from one species to another . |
27 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
28 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
29 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
30 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |