Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [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 | ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’ |
| 5 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 14 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had come a long way . |
| 17 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 18 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 19 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 20 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 21 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 28 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 29 | I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me . |
| 30 | He had walked a long way that day . |