Example sentences of "[vb base] travelled " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 2 | She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've travelled about it enough . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't like to guess how many miles I 've travelled watching them , but anyway , I 'm on my own now so it 's a day out for me . ’ |
| 6 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
| 7 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've travelled in the rush hour myself , and I must say two passengers in one compartment seems unlikely . ’ |
| 9 | GUIL : ( Broken ) We 've travelled too far , and our momentum has taken over ; we move idly towards eternity , without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation . |
| 10 | I 've travelled with them all : had a lovely Villa in Tuscany one year through Villas Italia — I 'd organised a party of 14 to come with me , but at the last moment her Mum said no . |
| 11 | Erm er so I am a European , I like talking about Europe , I 've travelled extensively in Europe erm so it 's an interest , I 'm comfortable . |
| 12 | You 've travelled , Mark , and done lots of odd jobs and things . |
| 13 | I 've travelled a bit , done things as you put it , but that does n't mean a thing . |
| 14 | So it 's quite a long while ago and I 've travelled round quite a bit since then . |
| 15 | I 've travelled up and down the country in the past few months , I 've spoken to union branches , I 've spoken to regional councils , regional committees , party meetings , general committees , regional conferences , and they all said the same . |
| 16 | ‘ As I 've travelled the universe , I 've come across the myths of many planets . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've travelled , like I say . |
| 18 | I 've travelled . |
| 19 | So the gradient there , is S over T , how far you 've travelled . |
| 20 | It is a terrible irony that although they are invisible to the planners all of us who 've travelled in developing countries can not fail to have noticed these children out of school . |
| 21 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 22 | Looking for a win has been like chasing the holy grail … for Swindon … they 've travelled far and wide … some cynics thought they 'd never find it … |
| 23 | Simon 's parents estimate they 've travelled around 35 000 miles from their home at Gosditch to the various hospitals where their son 's been treated . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Well you you 've travelled another hundred yards . |
| 26 | Some élite karateka have travelled all the way to an international competition only to be disbarred because they never took out their passports ! |
| 27 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 28 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 29 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 30 | As the recruits recount all sorts of ‘ anglers ’ tales ' about the last eight weeks of training , the Inspecting Officer and Commandant mingle with the visitors , Who have travelled from all corers of the United Kingdom and a few from further afield . |