Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
2 | I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me . |
3 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
4 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
5 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
6 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
7 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
8 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
9 | She had learned a fine way of sustaining the role of deprivation , but gratitude was an emotion beyond her range . |
10 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
11 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
12 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
13 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
14 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
15 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
16 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
17 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
18 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
19 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
20 | It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life . |
21 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
22 | They had come a long way very fast . |
23 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
24 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
25 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
26 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
27 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
28 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
29 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
30 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |