Example sentences of "go [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 4 | One electric lamp the others all be the the butty would have the electric lamp , and he 'd also carry an oil lamp for testing for gas , and er I can remember going nearly a whole shift having to carry this lamp right down on the floor , carry it up into the heading you see ? |
| 5 | Just before the line went dead a sharp click sounded as an extension was replaced . |
| 6 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
| 7 | They go only a short distance , or in the wrong direction or just come straight down again . |
| 8 | Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above . |
| 9 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 12 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 13 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 14 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 15 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 16 | They usually started out about now , and after catching me up went forward an agreed distance to make camp . |
| 17 | Once the decision has been taken to go ahead a good mailing should be planned under the following headings . |