Example sentences of "have [vb pp] all [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Surely having come all this way , you wo n't leave without seeing her . ’ |
2 | Schaefer , who has won 17 of 20 fights since turning professional in November 1987 , said : ‘ I would n't have come all this way if I did n't think I could beat Henry . |
3 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
4 | ‘ They 've come all this way to see you and is that all the welcome they get , ’ Rose chided gently . |
5 | ‘ Good God , after I 've come all this way ? ’ |
6 | This is what you 've come all this way for . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 've come all this way … ’ she smiled . |
8 | But we 're mighty anxious now we 've come all this way to get out into that jungle just as soon as we can and start hunting . " |
9 | ‘ If you 've come all this way at such a time … ’ |
10 | Anyhow , there 's the witch outside your guy 's door and he tells her to bug off , she ca n't come in , he 's expecting someone and she says , oh please , baby , sweetie , honey pie , ca n't I have just a teensy weensy little coffee after I 've come all this way to see you , and he says — because he 's a proper English gentleman , right ? ’ |
11 | ‘ We 've come all this way . ’ |
12 | ‘ Silas , darling — I 've come all this way just to see you and to be with you . |
13 | We 've come all this way . |
14 | ‘ Since I 've come all this way , I think I deserve that honour . ’ |
15 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
16 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
17 | An ’ if you 'll pardon the liberty , ladies , I reckon I 'd shirk my duty if two pretty young ladies had come all this way special . |
18 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
19 | Making sure that the precious package that she had come all this way to deliver was still safely at the bottom , she dressed in comfortable jeans , and what looked like a man 's old-fashioned sleeved vest , dyed red , and she was ready . |
20 | He waved me to a halt , and then proceeded to ask why on earth I , a gringo , had driven all this way , to what was evidently one of the least visited and least remarkable villages in all Panama . |
21 | You 've gone all that way for nothing ? |
22 | As you drive , or walk , God forbid , back along the road , it 's hard to believe you have travelled all that way at a lofty 3,000 feet . |
23 | I feel sorry for the fans who have travelled all this way to see that . ’ |
24 | We have come all this way to take part in a major game , not put ourselves up for auction . ’ |
25 | And how would poor , stooped Alice have come all this way on such an unlikely errand ? |
26 | But she 's got all that way to walk . |