Example sentences of "had go [art] long [noun sg] " 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 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
4 She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot .
5 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
6 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 .
7 She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own .
8 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
9 She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away .
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