Example sentences of "they have [verb] a long way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
2 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
3 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
4 They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
5 They had come a long way very fast .
6 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 .
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