Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adv] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 2 | You imagined you 'd found a less arduous way of earning a living than trailing round from one audition to the next . |
| 3 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 4 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 5 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |