Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others .
3 I 've gone the wrong way round now have n't I ?
4 I 've travelled a long way today . ’
5 I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live .
6 I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now .
7 I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 … ‘
11 What I 've learned , I 've learned the hard way . ’
12 I 've got a long way to go before I 'm thirty , ’ she 'd say .
13 mm , I 've got a long way to go yet then have I ?
14 But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage .
15 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 . "
16 But I have come a long way since then
17 I hear you 've come a long way . "
18 She has come a long way from 1755 when John Whiston described her poetry as ‘ extremely fit for young ladies … ‘
19 ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’
20 And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life .
21 ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’
22 Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way .
23 You 've got a nasty way of expressing yourself , d' you know that ?
24 You 've got a long way to go before you can set up on your own .
25 As I say you 've er , you 've got a long way to go , okay , fine thank you .
26 Yes cos you 've got a long way
27 You 've got a long way to travel .
28 You 've got a funny way of going on , I must say .
29 Skilled , semi-skilled , non-skilled workers see the different levels of of livelihood that you see to be measured on sort of thing and er therefore you 've got ta good way of representing this society as a whole have n't you .
30 But it 's whether you 've got the right way is n't it ?
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