Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible .
2 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
3 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
4 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
5 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
6 He had come a long way .
7 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
8 He had walked a long way that day .
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