Example sentences of "[verb] gone a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 2 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 3 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 4 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 5 | Dad has gone a bit funny about sex . |
| 6 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 7 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 8 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 9 | MOST HISTORIANS simply rely on archives — Peter Wynne-Thomas has gone a step further by creating one . |
| 10 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 11 | And so , hours later , when the room has gone a dusky grey from winter twilight and the smoke of our cigarettes , a most blank and bovine nurse accompanies Jackie 's husband into the room , and he indeed bears an armful of Sainsbury 's . |
| 12 | The Labour party has had similar problems and has gone a step further . |
| 13 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 14 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up . |
| 15 | Im all for giving an attacker the chance and boosting his confidence by allowing to play even after a couple of no-scoring games — but in the Deane case i feel it has gone a little to far . |
| 16 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 17 | For Jeffery Taylor , arts correspondent for the Mail on Sunday claims the Northern Ballet Theatre has gone a touch too far . |
| 18 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 19 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 20 | The saga of Hereford Cathedral 's Mappa Mundi has gone a stage further . |
| 21 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 22 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 23 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 24 | She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far . |
| 25 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 26 | Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’ |
| 27 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 28 | we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting . |
| 29 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 30 | I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty . |