Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 2 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 3 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |
| 4 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 5 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |
| 7 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 8 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 9 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 10 | His view of a robust plebeian culture embraces more than recreation , although the forms this took played an important and integrated role in a popular culture which represented a whole way of life . |
| 11 | Jess took a step backwards , muttering under her breath : ‘ God protect me and forgive me sins I did n't meant no wrong … ’ without believing in much except bruises , hunger and Fate which had a nasty way of turning the tables against her , but willing at the same time to try anything once . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 14 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 15 | She felt a long way away from him , and superior , also . |
| 16 | She had a long way , still , to go . |
| 17 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 18 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 19 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 20 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 21 | But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images . |
| 22 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 23 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 25 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid , hushed nor noisy , and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition . |
| 28 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 29 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 30 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |