Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.
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1 | Which I think goes a long way . |
2 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
3 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
4 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
5 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
8 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
9 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |
10 | 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 . " |
11 | But I have come a long way since then |
12 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
13 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
14 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
17 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
18 | Yes cos you 've got a long way |
19 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
20 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
21 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
23 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
24 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
25 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
26 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
27 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
28 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
29 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
30 | 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 . |