Example sentences of "had [adv] gone [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across .
2 We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street .
3 Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ .
4 Jessica had deliberately gone the other way — she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties .
5 From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride .
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