Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 3 | Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike . |
| 4 | I could hear him whistling a long way behind . |
| 5 | Back in Britain , Crawford found himself a choreographer , Leo Charibean , who taught him to dance the American way . |
| 6 | ‘ Then we must help him learn the proper way to behave , ’ said Anabelle simply . |
| 7 | Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest . |
| 8 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 9 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 10 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 11 | He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way . |
| 12 | ‘ He looks the other way , then ? ’ |
| 13 | He has a long way to go before equalling last year 's prize money of £42,399 , but the wonder horse proved that he is again in irresistible form when opening Whitaker 's account with a first prize of £3,700 . |
| 14 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 15 | Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes . |
| 16 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 17 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 18 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 19 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 20 | No BBC stooge , he has a sharp way with erring broadcasters . |
| 21 | Alford claims to be a staunch Kinnock supporter ; but he has an odd way of showing it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He recalled the uncanny way in which the wizard 's sword curved up and caught his own blade with a shock that jerked it out of his grip . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 26 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 27 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 28 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 29 | At one point he drove the wrong way through a contra-flow system . |
| 30 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |