Example sentences of "had [verb] a long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 2 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 3 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 4 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 7 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 8 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 9 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 10 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 11 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 12 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 13 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 14 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 15 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 16 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |