Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 2 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 3 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 4 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 5 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 6 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 9 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 10 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 13 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 14 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 15 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 16 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 17 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 18 | He had come a long way . |
| 19 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 20 | He had walked a long way that day . |