Example sentences of "he had come a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 2 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 3 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 4 | He had come a long way . |
| 5 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 6 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |