Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 2 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 3 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 4 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 5 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 6 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 7 | ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’ |
| 8 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 9 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 10 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 11 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 12 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 13 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 14 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 15 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 16 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 17 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 18 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 19 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 20 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 21 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 22 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 23 | He had come a long way . |
| 24 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 25 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 26 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 27 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 28 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 29 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 30 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |