Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 7 | I rejoined the lane , and walked back a little way towards Navan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 10 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 11 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 12 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 15 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 16 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 17 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 18 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 19 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 20 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 22 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 23 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 24 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 25 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 26 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 27 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 28 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
| 29 | Pipkin was stretched out a little way away . |
| 30 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |