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

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1 Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above .
2 She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time .
3 She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go !
4 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
5 After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man .
6 We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing .
7 There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals
8 If the previous stages have gone well the actual task of writing may now be relatively painless .
9 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
10 By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice .
11 A sporting fairy tale … but hold on … will Nigel and the Williams team from Oxfordshire live happily ever after … believe it or not before the bubbly has gone flat the sporting world is alive with speculation about the future of Mansell …
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