Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers .
3 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 .
4 With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went .
5 And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life .
6 ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’
7 But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills .
8 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 .
9 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
10 With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
13 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 .
14 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
15 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 .
16 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
17 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
18 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 .
19 He had come a long way .
20 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
21 They had come a long way very fast .
22 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
23 I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others .
24 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
25 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 .
26 She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills .
27 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
28 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
29 Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house .
30 A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way .
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