Example sentences of "gone [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 2 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll come , ’ said Karr , but he was gone only a few moments . |
| 4 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 5 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 6 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |