Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 2 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 3 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 4 | She was breathing quickly , and I realized she had run by a quicker way to get ahead of me . |
| 5 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |