Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] some way " in BNC.

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1 With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company .
2 I have mentioned some ways in which section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 might be amended .
3 I think as long as you 've got some way of dealing with things you can live with them .
4 She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever .
5 She 's got some way to go , ’ said Lili .
6 When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around .
7 It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior .
8 They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts .
9 But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge .
10 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
11 The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste .
12 Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone .
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