Example sentences of "[verb] a long way away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 2 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 3 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 4 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 5 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 6 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 7 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 8 | it seemed a long way away |
| 9 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 10 | It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort . |
| 11 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 12 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 13 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 14 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 15 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 16 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 17 | Holbein sounds a long way away from Braque but I think it 's a question of visual patterns , the division of the area . |
| 18 | Th th that we er we , we are moving a long way away from this egalitarian position , we 've abandoned that and we 've said right we , we are |
| 19 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 20 | ‘ North seems a long way away , and they tell me it 's cold there . ’ |
| 21 | Her head seems a long way away . |
| 22 | ‘ And that seems a long way away . |
| 23 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 24 | She felt a long way away from him , and superior , also . |
| 25 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 26 | The top still looked a long way away . |
| 27 | I live a long way away , actually . |
| 28 | Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony . |
| 29 | His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled . |
| 30 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |