Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 3 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 4 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 5 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 6 | He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way . |
| 7 | Did you find the quick way of working out the area of the rectangle in question 1 . |
| 8 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 9 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 10 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 11 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |