Example sentences of "we have [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 2 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 3 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 4 | I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 6 | We 've come a long , long way in just five years . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 11 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 14 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 15 | We 've had a long and tiring journey and my wife is not well . ’ |
| 16 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |
| 17 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've had a long , non-stop period of internationals and I think we 've got to let time take its course now . |
| 19 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 20 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |
| 21 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 22 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 23 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 24 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 25 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 26 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 27 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 28 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 30 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |