Example sentences of "they have [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
2 Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it .
3 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
4 Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives .
5 Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life .
6 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
7 And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round .
8 Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her .
9 It is as if , once they had found an effective way of surviving and reproducing , and a relatively stable environment in which to go about their business , there was little pressure to change their way of life .
10 They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
11 They had come a long way very fast .
12 Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house .
13 All in all , they have travelled a long way since that night when Santos led a nervous band of campesinos , complete with a BBC camera crew , onto Doña Elsa 's cattle ranch .
14 Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons .
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