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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 15 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 25 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 26 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 27 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 28 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 29 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 30 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |