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

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1 ‘ I 'll come , ’ said Karr , but he was gone only a few moments .
2 But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him .
3 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 .
4 He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death .
5 Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above .
6 She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time .
7 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 !
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