Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 2 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 3 | He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut . |
| 4 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 5 | And although this could have been a problem with Platinum , Mr Nabakov feels he has found an acceptable way around it . |
| 6 | ‘ He does have a natural way of dealing with young people . |
| 7 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |
| 8 | He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly . |
| 9 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 10 | He 's got a long way to go to find it . |