Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’ |
| 2 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 4 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 5 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 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 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 14 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 16 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 19 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 20 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got a nasty way of expressing yourself , d' you know that ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 23 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 24 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
| 25 | Yes cos you 've got a long way |
| 26 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
| 27 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
| 28 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 29 | You 've got a funny way of going on , I must say . |
| 30 | Skilled , semi-skilled , non-skilled workers see the different levels of of livelihood that you see to be measured on sort of thing and er therefore you 've got ta good way of representing this society as a whole have n't you . |