Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 8 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 11 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 12 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 17 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
| 19 | You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own . |
| 20 | As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you . |
| 21 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
| 22 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 23 | You 've got a long way to travel . |
| 24 | It does seem a sensible way to approach things , possibly . |
| 25 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
| 26 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 27 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 28 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 29 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 30 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |