Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went .
2 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
3 ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
4 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
5 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
6 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
7 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
8 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
9 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
10 That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 .
11 He had come a long way .
12 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
13 They had come a long way very fast .
14 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
15 I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others .
16 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
17 If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here .
18 She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills .
19 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
20 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
21 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
22 Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era .
23 He had walked a long way that day .
24 It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close .
25 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
26 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
27 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
28 By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army .
29 She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own .
30 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
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