Example sentences of "go a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 2 | Now moving on a little bit further , I know the talk said that I was only going up to er to , but I 'm just going a little bit further . |
| 3 | Going a little bit further , I 'm only er just a couple here . |
| 4 | Going a little bit further east , Rye used to be a very important port , and erm that was , what , in the sixteenth century certainly and possibly even later than that . |
| 5 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 8 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 9 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 10 | You 're bound to go a little bit too far or not quite far enough . |
| 11 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 12 | He goes a little bit further down the road . |
| 13 | He went a little way off , up the Bell o' the Brae , and tried again ; this time , although the woman likewise had no room , she pointed along the vennel . |
| 14 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 15 | It was clear that the true purpose of this meeting went a great deal deeper than mere small chat . |
| 16 | However when Fokine staged A Night of Egypt ( later Cleopatra ) he went a great deal further and developed a more particular Eastern style inspired by the performance of some Siamese dancers . |
| 17 | er and in some villages they went a great deal further than they did in , in |
| 18 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 19 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 20 | The Section went a long step further than this , however . |
| 21 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 22 | ‘ You went a little bit too far there , Meredith , ’ he said quietly . |
| 23 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 24 | The Single European Act , signed by Mrs Thatcher and the other EC leaders in 1986 , went a significant step further in removing powers from national Parliaments . |
| 25 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 26 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 27 | I mean , you can go along and always think ‘ Oh there 's nothing to this ’ , but then for some reason or other somebody has a complaint 's gone a big way round and ends up right at the top , and then , of course cascading down comes the ‘ Why ? |
| 28 | I do n't know , they 've probably gone a different way today |
| 29 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 30 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |