Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project has developed many successful ways of establishing and maintaining effective parental involvement in the teaching and learning of mathematics . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock has drawn Labour some way from its old follies , but he has manifestly not cured its obsession with the distribution of wealth , as opposed to its creation . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely having come all this way , you wo n't leave without seeing her . ’ |
| 4 | Schaefer , who has won 17 of 20 fights since turning professional in November 1987 , said : ‘ I would n't have come all this way if I did n't think I could beat Henry . |
| 5 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 6 | Even now I do n't think I would have acted any other way . |
| 7 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 8 | After all , though she was n't quite sure how she would have done it , she could have found some other way to lay hands on the money she needed . |
| 9 | Maybe you should have gone other bloody way ! |
| 10 | ‘ They 've come all this way to see you and is that all the welcome they get , ’ Rose chided gently . |
| 11 | ‘ Good God , after I 've come all this way ? ’ |
| 12 | This is what you 've come all this way for . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've come all this way … ’ she smiled . |
| 14 | But we 're mighty anxious now we 've come all this way to get out into that jungle just as soon as we can and start hunting . " |
| 15 | ‘ If you 've come all this way at such a time … ’ |
| 16 | Anyhow , there 's the witch outside your guy 's door and he tells her to bug off , she ca n't come in , he 's expecting someone and she says , oh please , baby , sweetie , honey pie , ca n't I have just a teensy weensy little coffee after I 've come all this way to see you , and he says — because he 's a proper English gentleman , right ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've come all this way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Silas , darling — I 've come all this way just to see you and to be with you . |
| 19 | We 've come all this way . |
| 20 | ‘ Since I 've come all this way , I think I deserve that honour . ’ |
| 21 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 22 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 23 | An ’ if you 'll pardon the liberty , ladies , I reckon I 'd shirk my duty if two pretty young ladies had come all this way special . |
| 24 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 25 | Making sure that the precious package that she had come all this way to deliver was still safely at the bottom , she dressed in comfortable jeans , and what looked like a man 's old-fashioned sleeved vest , dyed red , and she was ready . |
| 26 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 27 | You 've got seventy eight that way , and you 've got eighty that way and you 're on seventy nine , which way should you go ? |
| 28 | He waved me to a halt , and then proceeded to ask why on earth I , a gringo , had driven all this way , to what was evidently one of the least visited and least remarkable villages in all Panama . |
| 29 | You 've gone all that way for nothing ? |
| 30 | As you drive , or walk , God forbid , back along the road , it 's hard to believe you have travelled all that way at a lofty 3,000 feet . |