Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 2 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 3 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 4 | As he often did , Mr Wolski headed for the staff exit the long way round , by way of the Cages . |
| 5 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 6 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm used to walking a long way carrying the baby . ’ |
| 8 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 9 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 10 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 11 | It rose a long way . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 13 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 14 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 15 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 16 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 20 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 21 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 22 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 23 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 24 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 25 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 26 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 27 | We have come a long way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 30 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |