Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills .
2 Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life .
3 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
4 With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way .
5 ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
6 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
7 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
8 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
9 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
10 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
11 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
12 That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 .
13 He had come a long way .
14 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
15 They had come a long way very fast .
16 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
17 I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others .
18 One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further .
19 If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here .
20 She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills .
21 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
22 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
23 Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house .
24 A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way .
25 She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen .
26 It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way .
27 Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole .
28 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
29 Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era .
30 I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me .
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