Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was numb , but it was a numbness that promised to give way to an agonizing pain quite soon . |
| 2 | ‘ At least let me wash them up , ’ replied Sally-Anne determinedly , and , Rose giving way , she discovered that the water had to be fetched from a tap in the inside court , there being none piped into any of the surrounding buildings , and the privy was a common one , also standing in the yard . |
| 3 | She remembered how helplessly she 'd given way to Jake 's madness on Starr Hills . |
| 4 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 5 | And then suddenly he seemed to give way . |
| 6 | And then his iron control seemed to give way for a moment , his fingers clenching as he pulled her roughly against him . |
| 7 | The floor seemed to give way beneath her . |
| 8 | In other towns he 'd left way before the question mark , his Coke still fizzing at the top of the glass . |
| 9 | He began to see ways , to make plans . |
| 10 | I began to see ways in which I could improve . |
| 11 | It ushered in a decade in which composers began to find ways of circumventing the proscription on opera , even if many of them full avoided the full trappings of the opera house . |
| 12 | JIM MOODIE powered hid way to a winning TT double on the Isle of Man yesterday . |
| 13 | But that began to give way in the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 15 | When his Rajputs saw that their leader had fallen , they began to give way . |
| 16 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 17 | He was bearing her down , and her limbs began to give way beneath him . |
| 18 | The Timurid dynasty which followed gave way early in the sixteenth century to the Safavids , whose principal figure was that of Shah Abbas ( 1587–1629 ) and principal memorial the city that bears his stamp — Isfahan . |
| 19 | It lay at the point where the fertile coastal plain to which Shurton belonged gave way to the austerely beautiful Quantock Hills , and in the meeting of those two quite different landscapes the village acquired something of its distinctive character : Stowey was a place always busy with the concerns of a lowland domestic world , but the gateway as well to a solitary hill country where man 's dominance was suddenly challenged and nature prevailed . |
| 20 | At a relatively early stage in England — the Black Death in the fourteenth century is one marker — feudal relations in the countryside began to make way for wage labour and the beginnings of a market in land as a commodity . |
| 21 | I squinted and transformed the galaxy into the dust of my dead skin ; I always read ‘ YAW EVIG ’ from the glistening macadam and avoided giving way . |
| 22 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 23 | He will open a new school hall and plant two oaks to replace trees lost to make way for the new development . |
| 24 | Although upper or middle class women in the 18th century managed to negotiate ways in which to participate in the intellectual culture of their day — this is the age of the so-called blue stockings , fashionable women who banned gambling at their parties and invited clever people to come and converse wittily with each other — this period also witnessed the emergence of a sexually discriminating language , which defined women as the gentle and sentimental sex , and proposed a passive ideal of femininity closely tied to nature and biologically determined nurturing role in which intelligence and imagination were to be banished if not carefully hidden — masked . |
| 25 | And even that seemed a but thinking of the old tramp and he was in a a sort of all belaggered looking way . |
| 26 | But a number of older women did find ways of earning , especially after they were widowed : as a midwife , nursing , or doing ‘ a little bit of needlework to keep herself going ’ , or baking cakes for sale . |
| 27 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 28 | Her own intense excitement had given way to a hollow feeling in her stomach and she had been quite unable to eat for several days . |
| 29 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 30 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |