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 . ’ |