Example sentences of "[to-vb] [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 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 5 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 6 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 7 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 8 | But er we , we had quite a difficulty , very , very difficult , we used to have to walk a long way before we could get to a telephone . |
| 9 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 10 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 11 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 12 | I think she 's going to go a long way — which she deserves to . ’ |
| 13 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 14 | However , the alleged principle appears to go a long way beyond authority . |
| 15 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 16 | ‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 18 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
| 19 | If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners … |
| 20 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 21 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 22 | It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way . |
| 23 | Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year |
| 24 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 25 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 26 | Thus a miner who slipped from the worn and greasy rungs was liable to fall a long way and a dropped tool could clatter its way down to cause death or injury to some fellow below . |
| 27 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 28 | If you live in the centre of a large town , they may need to fly a long way . |
| 29 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
| 30 | Even so , it is possible to get a long way with well-designed experiments . |