Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way .
2 She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’
3 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
4 Mr Major has worked out the best way to do this is to read out lists .
5 I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used .
6 I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess .
7 She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time .
8 By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice .
9 I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way .
10 ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’
11 ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’
12 Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way .
13 What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase .
14 To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture .
15 Peter had found out the hard way .
16 That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning .
17 The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year .
18 She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go !
19 They 've changed quite the opposite way because er I now know that it can be done and how important advertising is to the even to the local businesses .
20 But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way .
21 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
22 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
23 But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours .
24 Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop .
25 We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing .
26 Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ?
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