Example sentences of "have [verb] a very long way " in BNC.
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1 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
2 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
3 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
4 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
5 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
6 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
7 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
8 | 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 . |
9 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
10 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
11 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |