Example sentences of "go [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 32 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 33 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 34 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 35 | They go back a long way . |
| 36 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 37 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 38 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 39 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 40 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 42 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 43 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 44 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 45 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |
| 46 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 47 | His memories go back a long , long way . ’ |
| 48 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 49 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 50 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 52 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 53 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 54 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 55 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |