Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 2 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 3 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 4 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 5 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 6 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 7 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 8 | That 's still got an awful long way to go . |
| 9 | And I 'm afraid that as all I 've seen is one miscalculated mishap after another you 've got an awful long way to go before I 'm convinced of anything . |
| 10 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 11 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 12 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 13 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |