Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] the way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I must have travelled all the way with Sparky in the engine .
2 He must have run all the way from the car park .
3 He could have gone all the way ’ his former coach Mahommed Aghredien said .
4 We turned over the Bundesliga championships , and then were unlucky to come across an inspired Rangers side , who , but for the odd-bribe or two could have gone all the way .
5 It started about 500 feet above the ground and could have continued all the way up to the stratosphere , for all any one of us , peering hopefully upwards , could tell .
6 Julie could have swum all the way home from South Africa , she had so much stamina in the water .
7 A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge .
8 It will be exactly the same place , it will have gone all the way round , right ?
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