Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 2 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 3 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 4 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 5 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |