Example sentences of "[pers pn] had gone [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I had gone fifty yards , I felt a couple of grains of sand strike my left cheek . |
| 2 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 3 | Her father said she looked as if she had gone three rounds in the boxing ring . |
| 4 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 5 | The tall grass on the other side of the river was still wet with dew and before they had gone fifty yards all the men were drenched to the waist . |
| 6 | His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before . |
| 7 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |