Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] come a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
| 2 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 3 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 4 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
| 5 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 6 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 7 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 9 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 11 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 12 | Douglas McIldoon , of the EC , said : ‘ This document demonstrates that you have come a long way in this region and it will give us great pleasure in working with you to make it happen . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 15 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 16 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 17 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 18 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 19 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 20 | We have come a long way . |
| 21 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 22 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 23 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 24 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 25 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 26 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 27 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 28 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 29 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 30 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |