Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] 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 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
7 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
8 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
9 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
10 He had come a long way .
11 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
12 The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors .
13 He had walked a long way that day .
14 He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene .
15 He 's got a long way to go home , ’ said Ray Shepherd quietly .
16 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 .
17 He 's got a long way to go to find it .
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