Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've stayed that way because outright majority has been given with the help of the council 's single independent . |
| 2 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 3 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 4 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 5 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 6 | ‘ They have gone that way , ’ he said , pointing up the path , ‘ but someone has lain here … ’ |
| 7 | They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts . |
| 8 | They have devised several ways of producing the required magnetic field , including a slotted busbar ( such as might be used in a power station ) around which the fibre can be wrapped . |
| 9 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 10 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 11 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |