Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
| 2 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 3 | This minor impediment for the flanker is just sufficient to allow a fraction more time and space for the half-back to get things moving and has gone a long way to assist in opening the game up . |
| 4 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 5 | The addition of the words " The Editor " are still not going to solve the problem , since the editor of a national Newspaper is hardly likely to be interested in the launch a new kettle or the fact that your organisation has discovered a new way to process cheese ! |
| 6 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 7 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 8 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 9 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 10 | Learning to understand how your dog 's mind works makes things much easier , so why ca n't we welcome someone — like a home visitor — prepared to explain the quickest way to do this ? |
| 11 | The office is attempting to establish the best way to encourage more competition in the industrial market following the agreement with British Gas . |
| 12 | Stealing , cheating and lying become the only way to pay . |
| 13 | In the light of the report the Louvre , knowing that it would inherit the Richelieu wing from the Ministry of Finance , due to move to new premises in the east end of Paris , began to study the best way to redistribute its collections . |
| 14 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 15 | And chairman Bob Murray , who made an embarrassing personal apology for the semi-final ticket sale fiasco , when supporters queued all night in freezing conditions , pledged that the directors would try to find the fairest way to sell the tickets . |
| 16 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 17 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 18 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 19 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 20 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 21 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 22 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 25 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 26 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 28 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 29 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
| 30 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |