Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘ |
| 2 | Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks . |
| 3 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 4 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 5 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 6 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 7 | And although this could have been a problem with Platinum , Mr Nabakov feels he has found an acceptable way around it . |
| 8 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 9 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 10 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 11 | clockwise even though it means coming the long way round |
| 12 | ‘ He does have a natural way of dealing with young people . |
| 13 | It does provide an effective way for partners ‘ to accrue capital ’ . |
| 14 | It does seem a sensible way to approach things , possibly . |
| 15 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 16 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 17 | It 's come a long way |
| 18 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 19 | It 's put the other way , I do n't like that . |
| 20 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |
| 21 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 22 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 23 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |
| 24 | But he , you see he 's learnt the right way . |