Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 2 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 3 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 4 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 5 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 6 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 7 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 8 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 9 | Unhappily , such days do not come too often , for I live a long way from Ringwood and it is a very popular river in that area . |
| 10 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 11 | And they are there to be worked to until such time as we find a better way of doing it . |
| 12 | I took the standard right turn and watched as he stopped a little way out to sea , turned , and stared at us . |
| 13 | And indeed , feminism was quite happy with that , for it heralded a new way of being . |