Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 2 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 3 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 4 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 5 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 6 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 7 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 8 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 9 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 10 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 11 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
| 12 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 13 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 14 | Although different presentation styles are appropriate to different media this is not indicated on the list and you will need to refer either to the Quick Reference Guide ( a single folder card that you should try to keep handy ) or to Chapter 20 of the User Guide — which frankly seems rather a long way in ! |
| 15 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 16 | Three to five years seems quite a long way forward in the current uncertain climate . |
| 17 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 18 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 19 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 20 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 21 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 22 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 23 | It was yeah they 'd come quite a long way actually . |
| 24 | M my parents live quite a long way away and erm y you 've got to you need the support of others . |
| 25 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 26 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 27 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 28 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said : ‘ We are making progress on arrears , but have quite a long way to go . |
| 29 | Except , Gedanken noticed , those who had to travel quite a long way . |