Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
2 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
3 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
4 | To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture . |
5 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |