Example sentences of "we [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 2 | We took the long way , on the way back to the bus stop |
| 3 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | We go the long way ; who knows how long it will be before we come this way again ? |
| 5 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 6 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 7 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 8 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 9 | ‘ Have n't we come a long way ? ’ he said , and collapsed . |
| 10 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 11 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 12 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 13 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 14 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 15 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 17 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 19 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 20 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 21 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 22 | The document before us goes a long way towards providing for the independence of the monetary institution , which will be a crucial element in the success of a single currency . |
| 23 | All of us felt a long way from the happy days when ‘ we never had it so good ’ . |
| 24 | Hee-Haw carried me through the trees and the three of us travelled a long way . |