Example sentences of "come a long way [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 4 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 5 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 6 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 7 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 8 | Came a long way did n't they ? |