Example sentences of "[pron] have come a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 2 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
| 3 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 4 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 5 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
| 6 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 7 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 8 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 9 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 10 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 12 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 14 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 15 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 16 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 17 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 18 | Douglas McIldoon , of the EC , said : ‘ This document demonstrates that you have come a long way in this region and it will give us great pleasure in working with you to make it happen . ’ |
| 19 | Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 22 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 23 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 24 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 25 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 26 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 27 | We have come a long way . |
| 28 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 29 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 30 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |