Example sentences of "[vb past] a long way [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 2 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 3 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 4 | Came a long way did n't they ? |
| 5 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 6 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 7 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |
| 8 | British officials denied the conditions were already virtually fulfilled by Serbia , saying that Mr Milosevic ‘ had a long way to go ’ before the EC would be satisfied . |
| 9 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 10 | They had a long way to go . |
| 11 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 12 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 13 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 14 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 15 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 16 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 17 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 18 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 19 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 20 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 21 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 22 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 23 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 24 | I appreciate that the television companies have to get the best shots of the game or we 'd complain about that , but I think they should bear in mind those people who have paid to see the game and , in some cases like mine , travelled a long way to see the match . |