Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 32 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 33 | She had learned a fine way of sustaining the role of deprivation , but gratitude was an emotion beyond her range . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 36 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 40 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 41 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 42 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 43 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 44 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 48 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 53 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 54 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 57 | 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 ? |
| 58 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 59 | We have come a long way . |
| 60 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |