Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her sleepless , restless night seemed a long way off . |
| 32 | It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort . |
| 33 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 34 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 35 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 36 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 37 | It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived . |
| 38 | With the rain teeming down at the Manor , Italy seemed a long way off — too far for United . |
| 39 | As a device for separating ‘ general matters of policy ’ from ‘ day to day administration ’ it seemed a comfortable way of combining public accountability with business efficiency in a parliamentary system of government : Ministers dealt with the former and the corporation 's employees with the latter . |
| 40 | Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator in charge of basic energy research , was enthusiastic : ‘ The work was promising in the sense that it identified a new way of effecting nuclear fusion even though there was no strong indication that it might be practical . ’ |
| 41 | Greg retreated a short way down the path , and the Fire Officer turned back to the operation . |
| 42 | And indeed , feminism was quite happy with that , for it heralded a new way of being . |
| 43 | Kant 's Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ) was just one of the major works that heralded a new way of doing philosophy : the beginning of that critical rationality that Sir Karl Popper so admired and saw as a turning-point in the history of ideas . |
| 44 | The door opened a short way , and a small elderly lady with soft cotton-wool hair peered out at them . |
| 45 | As with the blacks , sport for Jews became a possible way out of the dreadful circumstances which beset their lives . |
| 46 | The lights of Soufrière twinkled a long way off as they set off into the black , and headed north for Marigot Bay . |
| 47 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 48 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 49 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 50 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 51 | ‘ Well , you got a nice way with you , Sergeant Joe , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ and I do n't suppose many women would find it easy to say no to you , whatever you wanted . ’ |
| 52 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 53 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 54 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |
| 55 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 56 | The largest conventional university is the University of London ( in effect a federation of largely independent colleges ) , which has over 40,000 students , followed a long way behind by the Universities of Wales , Oxford , Cambridge , Leeds and Manchester , each of which have over 10,000 students . |
| 57 | The cell developed a new way of consuming oxygen to make carbon dioxide and water to release energy . |
| 58 | McFarlane once discovered a good way to kill curiosity , like the cat . |
| 59 | Roy Johnston recalled : ‘ The August 1966 Maghera conference of the Wolf e Tone Societies … discussed a memorandum on civil rights prepared by the Dublin Society … with some of the Republican leadership present , convincing the latter that this constituted a valid way forward . ’ |
| 60 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |