Example sentences of "go [adv prt] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way .
2 They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way !
3 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
4 She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’
5 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
6 The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ .
7 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
8 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
9 The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way .
10 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
11 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
12 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
13 Goes back a long way I 'm afraid .
14 so she goes back a long way .
15 Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way .
16 No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and
17 The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’
18 That the , that the erm , right , erm , you can go back a fair ways earlier and already find people thinking that you can be transported from one body to another , or even from one species to another .
19 But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight .
20 Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way .
21 Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way .
22 After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way .
23 Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way .
24 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 .
25 The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way .
26 They go back a long way .
27 The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way .
28 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 .
29 But I hope he will ; we go back a long way .
30 The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century .
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