Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 2 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 3 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 4 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 7 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 8 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 9 | The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat — you stayed indoors if there was trouble . |
| 10 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 11 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 12 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 13 | The working-class youth had inherited a traditional way of watching a match , |
| 14 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 15 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 16 | The fact that the party 's final net loss was only eight seats indicated that Clinton 's popularity had gone a considerable way towards offsetting the effects of reapportionment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 19 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 20 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 21 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |