Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Doctors claim they 've found a new way of treating breast cancer which could save thousands of lives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |