Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 2 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 3 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 4 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 5 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 6 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 7 | While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have been obvious that we were n't going to let it slip it seemed that way to me , ’ said Morrissey . |
| 9 | I love the songs they write for me and I try to make it look that way in the style in which I deliver it , ’ she added modestly . |
| 10 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 11 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 12 | It fell some way up the street . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , it feels that way to me too . |
| 14 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 15 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't it seem that way to you ? ’ |
| 17 | But its interface was easy to use ; it had clear ways of defining fields . |
| 18 | For the discourse analyst , it provides another way of accounting for sequences of utterances , though one apparently limited to discourse which is the mutual construction of more than one person . |
| 19 | Birmingham city council says the tour will help it find new ways of dealing with racism . |
| 20 | It stood some way from the nearest village on the road from Brünn to Olmütz . |
| 21 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |