Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |
| 2 | The action around the fretboard 's upper regions is perhaps tougher than some would like , but there 's enough height at the bridge-saddle to bring it down a fair way . |
| 3 | We now walk along a covered way called the Ride , designed for exercising Infirmary Patients , and also for testing for freedom from disease or otherwise of the Respiratory Organs of horses prior to purchase . |
| 4 | The effort of thinking up a new way to tackle a dragon , a beloved dragon , daunted her for a minute . |
| 5 | And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more . |
| 6 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 7 | I think it 's absolutely not the case to say that we 're sending the wrong signals , I think there 's a recognition in the country that the economy has been mismanaged , and the price that 's being exacted by people is too high , high levels of unemployment , low levels of growth , and social services undermined , and people recognize that Labour is setting out a new way forward . |
| 8 | Work out a rough way of what you 're going to give for for |
| 9 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 10 | By day light flooded the room and by night darkness , because no one had ever worked out a satisfactory way of curtaining these great expanses . |
| 11 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 12 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 13 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 14 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 15 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 16 | They go back a long way . |
| 17 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 18 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 19 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 20 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 21 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 22 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 23 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 24 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 25 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 26 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 28 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
| 29 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 30 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |