Example sentences of "go a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That means going a little way into the mountains and I do n't see how you could get lost on a mountain road . |
| 2 | LABOUR 'S Nigel Griffiths checked out claims of computer game rip-offs yesterday by going a few rounds with Sega 's Sonic The Hedgehog . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 4 | but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further . |
| 5 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 6 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 7 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 10 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 11 | A further decree in 1982 , this time initiated by a civilian government , reinforced state control of the banking and finance sectors and went a little way to encourage Nigerian capital to invest more in the manufacturing sector . |
| 12 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 13 | ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’ |
| 14 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 15 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 16 | We also went a few nights later to Stavanger , and I do believe that my bomb-aimer at least claimed he saw , through broken cloud , what he took to be hangars on the airfield at Stavanger and these were bombed . |
| 17 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 18 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 19 | Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know . |
| 20 | We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends . |
| 21 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 22 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 23 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 24 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 25 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 26 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 27 | The price cut will go a little way to alleviating the burden of VAT on bills , due to be introduced next April , a move described by Manweb chairman Bryan Weston as disappointing . |
| 28 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 29 | He says , go a few times |