Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 2 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 3 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |
| 4 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 5 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you got a nice way with you , Sergeant Joe , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ and I do n't suppose many women would find it easy to say no to you , whatever you wanted . ’ |
| 8 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 9 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 10 | She felt a long way away from him , and superior , also . |
| 11 | She had a long way , still , to go . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 14 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 15 | We rode a good way along the track before Mandeville slowed , leaned over and talked quietly to Southgate . |
| 16 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 20 | They drove a short way along the coast to a restaurant that was neither smart nor squalid , hushed nor noisy , and where a dinner they paid no attention to was served to them seemingly without any act of volition . |
| 21 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 22 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 23 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 24 | They had a long way to go . |
| 25 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 26 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 27 | Consistent with his medico-chemical interests was his Edinburgh MD thesis ‘ On the theory of Chemical Combination ’ ( 1861 ) , in which he proposed a new way to represent chemical constitution : each atom was to be indicated by the chemical symbol for the element concerned , bonds between atoms being symbolized by lines . |
| 28 | It rose a long way . |
| 29 | Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator in charge of basic energy research , was enthusiastic : ‘ The work was promising in the sense that it identified a new way of effecting nuclear fusion even though there was no strong indication that it might be practical . ’ |
| 30 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |