Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |
| 4 | Obviously he has a long way to mature physically , but he 's surpassed our hopes . |
| 5 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 6 | He has a long way to go but will keep playing as an amateur and then try to qualify for the Britsh open … |
| 7 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 8 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 9 | No BBC stooge , he has a sharp way with erring broadcasters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well he came a long way to get chucked out did n't he ? |
| 14 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 15 | He seemed a long way off . |
| 16 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 17 | He knew a quick way to the field through the top of the wood . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | mind he had a Milky Way bar and then afterward he had a mini Milk |
| 20 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 21 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 22 | He had a peculiar way of dismounting — instead of putting his right leg over the saddle in the usual fashion , he used to put his left leg on a step protruding from the rear spindle , stand on this and gently place his right leg to the ground . |
| 23 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
| 24 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |
| 25 | He had a funny way of talking , Kate thought . |
| 26 | He sounded a long way off . |
| 27 | We know he ran a long way . |
| 28 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 29 | You know he works a long way down , on the fourth floor under the stage . |