Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship .
2 Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him .
3 Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall .
4 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
5 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
6 ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’
7 I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er
8 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 .
9 There are songs about fleeting eye contacts , snatched and forever treasured , about drunken kisses and casual betrayals , about girls who walk home a different way each night to avoid the air-head wolf-whistles .
10 And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more .
11 Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner .
12 And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances .
13 However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead .
14 What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase .
15 Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop .
16 You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids .
17 Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way
18 He could see Lorrimer and Kerrison conferring together a little way apart , their backs turned , the two dark heads close together .
19 To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture .
20 sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again
21 However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road .
22 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 .
23 They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way !
24 She could n't get her to walk even a little way from the house .
25 and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people .
26 But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward .
27 She complained to Tawny about her when they walked home a little way together .
28 I rejoined the lane , and walked back a little way towards Navan .
29 It so happened that this entailed doubling back a considerable way of the route , but , so Mr Charles assures me , my father accepted the request as though it were a perfectly reasonable one , and in general , continued to behave with immaculate courtesy .
30 This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory .
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