Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] [verb] a long " in BNC.

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1 But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference .
2 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
3 But I have come a long way since then
4 But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
5 There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way .
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