Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |
2 | 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 . " |
3 | But I have come a long way since then |
4 | But the family sat on with the inertia of those who have travelled a long way and are reluctant to face the effort of arrival . |
5 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
6 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
9 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
10 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
11 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
12 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
13 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
14 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
15 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
16 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
17 | We have come a long way . |
18 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
19 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
20 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
21 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
22 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
23 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
24 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
25 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
26 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
27 | All in all , they have travelled a long way since that night when Santos led a nervous band of campesinos , complete with a BBC camera crew , onto Doña Elsa 's cattle ranch . |
28 | Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons . |