Example sentences of "had go [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At ten P M she did n't seem too great either , her temperature had gone up a little bit , but nevertheless , she slept on . |
2 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
3 | We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . |
4 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
5 | Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above . |
6 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
7 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 ! |