Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | I decided to find an easier way , and this is it . |
2 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
3 | So I did , and I managed to rise a little way , but my wing hurt and the sea wind tugged at it and below me there suddenly flew some hooded crows and I was afraid and panicked , and nearly fell from the sky . |
4 | Which I think goes a long way . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
8 | I 've gone the wrong way round now have n't I ? |
9 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
10 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
11 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
12 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
13 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
14 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
15 | I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘ |
16 | What I 've learned , I 've learned the hard way . ’ |
17 | ‘ I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say . |
18 | mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ? |
19 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |
20 | Though sometimes , when they 've been smashed into and then I have to turn the other way , they go oh ! |
21 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
22 | But I have come a long way since then |
23 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
24 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
25 | If you want to know the correct way to squat , then just watch a child of two or three because they are doing it all the time . |
26 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
27 | ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’ |
28 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
29 | And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life . |
30 | You seem to have an excellent way with them , with the younger ones . |