Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should n't I have a different way of estimating it ? |
| 2 | I 'm I 'm every day people , before I met you my life was standing still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |
| 3 | still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |
| 4 | I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations . |
| 5 | Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently . |
| 8 | " Do you have a long way to go ? " |
| 9 | For instance , if you 've a long way to go , it 's better to get there slowly than not at all . ’ |
| 10 | You 've a long way to go yet and a lot to learn . |
| 11 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 12 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 13 | She had a long way , still , to go . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 16 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You have a long way to go to win them back . |
| 19 | ‘ You have a nice way of expressing yourself which , I suppose , reflects your industrial background . ’ |
| 20 | Gather together enough antimatter , and you have a cheap way of travelling to the stars — because obviously the only energy you would be using would be gravitational , of which there is plenty available in the Universe . |
| 21 | ‘ You have a novel way of showing boredom , ’ he drawled . |
| 22 | We 've a long way to go , pet , and you 've had an exciting day ’ , Tamar said firmly . |
| 23 | I know that we 've a long way today er to go today but would you just bear that in mind colleagues . |
| 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 | We do get work from individuals , I said we have an open policy and people come through with problems that they 've got because they know us and some we take up , we try and be helpful and , and take up individual problems and then we have a two way relationship with community groups and last and not , not , not least , we , we live across the corridor from the General Manager and he 's always flying in and giving us work as well . |
| 27 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 28 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 29 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 30 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |