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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
| 12 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 17 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 18 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 19 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 20 | We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing . |
| 21 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |