Example sentences of "have gone a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | You 've gone a straight across there . |
2 | They 've gone a lot of funny ways , the Cauldhames and their associates by marriage , but to the best of my knowledge a gun has never crossed one off . |
3 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
4 | He was straining hard now , and still nothing was happening ; everything had gone a couple of shades darker , and the roaring in his ears drowned out everything else . |
5 | Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest . |
6 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |