Example sentences of "[pron] come [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 2 | Joe and I mean I come a long way and they said he told them I wan na pop in Friday morning before we go He was surprised He said well I were n't surprised , I said but er you know I want a name yeah well , he just said well I ca n't he ca n't fault me on anything . |
| 3 | And of course you meet something coming the other way wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | The road out of the village , southwards , shrinks in a quite unforeseeable manner in order to pass under the porch of a small chapel ; this could be distracting , and were something coming the other way lead perhaps to a rare collision on what is no doubt consecrated ground . |
| 5 | Now when the buses pull up there , they 've got to double park and it completely blocks the road , I mean you 've either got to swing right round the bus on the wrong side of the road and you know you could easily run into something coming the other way . |
| 6 | The one coming the other way . |
| 7 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
| 8 | She prayed there was nothing coming the other way . |
| 9 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 10 | He walked with self-conscious haste up the south side of the street towards Temple Bar , staring into the face of everyone coming the opposite way , challenging them to give any sign of their pity and contempt . |
| 11 | At that moment , there comes a new way of seeing and the sensation of tears is felt and with it the ecstasy of seeing the eternal or divine . |
| 12 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 13 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 14 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 15 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
| 16 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |