Example sentences of "he [verb] a [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 | I could hear him whistling a long way behind . |
| 4 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 7 | Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes . |
| 8 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 9 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 10 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 11 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 12 | No BBC stooge , he has a sharp way with erring broadcasters . |
| 13 | Alford claims to be a staunch Kinnock supporter ; but he has an odd way of showing it . |
| 14 | He stopped a little way away , and so did I. He 'd obviously got some plan . |
| 15 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 16 | I took the standard right turn and watched as he stopped a little way out to sea , turned , and stared at us . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 21 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 22 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 23 | He drove a little way further on and turned using the grass verge after the last cottage . |
| 24 | He walked a little way along the road , past Marshall 's van , and could n't find her . |
| 25 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 26 | He knew a quick way to the field through the top of the wood . |
| 27 | He went a little way off , up the Bell o' the Brae , and tried again ; this time , although the woman likewise had no room , she pointed along the vennel . |
| 28 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 29 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 30 | mind he had a Milky Way bar and then afterward he had a mini Milk |