Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] way [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 2 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 4 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 5 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
| 6 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
| 7 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 8 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 11 | Scientists in France have found a new way to bring the past back to life . |
| 12 | Second , by embracing collective entrepreneurship , the Japanese especially have found a different way to achieve competitive advantage while maintaining high real wages . |
| 13 | VICE cops in Italy have found a novel way to stop kerb-crawlers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 16 | Hard-hit farmers have discovered a new way to make money … by turning their fields into racing circuits . |