Example sentences of "[verb] a long way [adv] " 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 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 3 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 4 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 5 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 6 | finished starts a long way back , do n't it ? |
| 7 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 8 | Superior still looks a long way off . |
| 9 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 13 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 14 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 15 | Looking a long way out along one line , it found ‘ walls ’ of galaxies at regular intervals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 20 | it seemed a long way away |
| 21 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 22 | It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort . |
| 23 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 24 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 25 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 26 | Despite the Conservatives ' election victory and the easing of rates since their high point in August 1990 , recovery seemed a long way off even before the events of Black Wednesday . |
| 27 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 28 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 29 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 30 | Her sleepless , restless night seemed a long way off . |