Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a long 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 , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 8 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 9 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | We have come a long way . |
| 14 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 15 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 16 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 17 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 18 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 19 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 20 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 21 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |