Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want money made that way ; he did n't want the humiliation . |
| 2 | I never lived that way . |
| 3 | ‘ Poke ’ is an Anglo-Saxon word for ‘ sack ’ , and a ‘ pig in a poke ’ was a suckling pig taken to market tied up in a sack and sold that way , sight unseen . |
| 4 | Do you know why you got that way ? |
| 5 | When I was in prison I was n't hard to start with , but I soon got that way . |
| 6 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 7 | He 's very insecure I do n't know how he got that way . |
| 8 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 9 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 10 | He always noticed pools of oil and empty coke cans round the house if ever he passed that way . |
| 11 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 12 | Jenny got half way to the bar before anyone noticed her . |
| 13 | Before he got half way , they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor . |
| 14 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 15 | But to qualify for that you 've had , you 've actually got to be a councillor for six years , so I got half way there , |
| 16 | Then after I got half way along the I used to go down to that was another place where there was two more bungalows , you see , and then come out of there and go away to call on some more houses until I got to Miss the finish of the round . |
| 17 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 18 | Are you finishing that you got half way down that like this erm I 'll |
| 19 | When Leigh Fermor passed this way and was quizzed and befriended by the fair-haired girl Vasilio with the lamb slung round her neck , it was still a living community . |
| 20 | From the account of another ‘ scientist ’ who once passed this way . ’ |
| 21 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 22 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 23 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 24 | Bags made this way are very warm , as more filling can be used . |
| 25 | DNA made this way is lost during phenol extraction unless acidified beforehand by addition of sodium acetate pH 5.0 to 0.1 M. No further salt addition is then required for ethanol precipitation . |
| 26 | Conclaves of economists argued this way and that . |
| 27 | But I guess they just got some way . |
| 28 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 29 | He found that way of living very much to his liking , but regretted never having the opportunity to learn the Maori language before he began his ministry . |
| 30 | If Mr Rich found that way of recovering what he had lent Mr Dunn in good faith unpalatable , he could apply to the county court for an ‘ Attachment of Earnings Order ’ instructing Dunn 's employer to make weekly or monthly deductions from his earnings . |