Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 9 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 10 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If electric cars are going to have a significant future , we have to find a cleaner way to generate electricity . " |
| 16 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 17 | We have found an effective way to show the effect of different choices is to split the class into groups working with different bases eg. some using FIFO and some using average cost . |
| 18 | We have come a long way . |
| 19 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 20 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 21 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 22 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 23 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 24 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 25 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 26 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |