Example sentences of "went [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 2 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 3 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 4 | And then Ted and I went out a little bit later and we sa , we found two goldfish and two golden |
| 5 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 6 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 7 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 8 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 9 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |