Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [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 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
8 | ‘ Yeah , it feels that way to me too . |
9 | 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 . |