Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round .
2 He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home .
3 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
4 ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
5 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
6 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
7 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
8 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
9 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
10 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
11 That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 .
12 He had come a long way .
13 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
14 They had come a long way very fast .
15 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
16 I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others .
17 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
18 If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here .
19 She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills .
20 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
21 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
22 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
23 Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era .
24 Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing .
25 He had walked a long way that day .
26 It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close .
27 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
28 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
29 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
30 By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army .
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