Example sentences of "[pers pn] had come a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 2 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 3 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 4 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 5 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 6 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 7 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 8 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 9 | He had come a long way . |
| 10 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |