Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] come a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 2 | Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks . |
| 3 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 4 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 5 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 6 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 7 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 8 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 9 | It 's come a long way |
| 10 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 11 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |