Example sentences of "[pers pn] have gone a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
2 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
3 What about it like this , see , I 've done all those hats , I 've done the , I 've gone a great hat I have
4 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
5 She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards .
6 Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting .
7 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
8 She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own .
9 She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away .
10 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
11 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
12 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
13 I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints .
14 We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends .
15 If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye .
16 Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’
17 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
18 After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early .
19 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
20 Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse .
21 As soon as he had gone a furious argument broke out .
22 Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour !
23 I think he 's gone a dumb .
24 ‘ No , I 've still got Dad , but he does n't count for much now , poor love , he 's gone a little bit silly . ’
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