Example sentences of "[pron] come [art] long 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 ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed .
4 They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ?
8 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 .
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