Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] way " in BNC.
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1 | I 've bought Smiths records but they have never altered my way of thinking . |
2 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
3 | For instance , among the veritable rarities that have come my way in that time , I have had at least as many disappointments as pleasant surprises . |
4 | Since then , through third parties , two opportunities have come my way to work with that celebrity . |
5 | If the Pritchetts had n't taken me in , I 'd have probably been put in an orphanage and never had the educational advantages or been given the opportunities that have come my way . ’ |
6 | Perhaps I might not have done but for information which has recently come my way concerning your financial circumstances . |
7 | ‘ No — that has n't come my way — marriage , ’ he said rather oddly , as if it were the sort of thing about which one had no conscious choice . |
8 | Never looked my way ! |
9 | It has won its way into CAMRA 's Heart of England Beer Festival finals . |
10 | More recently , and equally significantly , the colony 's stock market had mended its ways . |
11 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
12 | A great deal of gossip about the village and its inhabitants had thus come her way , from every direction . |
13 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
14 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
15 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
16 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
17 | Lord only knew what cutting comments would have come her way if he had . |
18 | She had never ridden a horse and , as she had always lived in the city , the opportunity to wander through native bush had never come her way . |
19 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
20 | I 've forgotten which way I come in . |
21 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
22 | The fact was that almost nobody even as much as looked her way as she passed , but the tight knot of embarrassment stayed deep within her all the same . |
23 | Any teacher could write their own long list of countermanding pieces of advice that have come their way . |
24 | As always she had won her way , and now she was paying the price of it . |
25 | The movies had fought their way out of a corner , leaving saloons , poolrooms , and dance-halls behind , but they had won their way through not so much to middle-class respectability as to classlessness . |
26 | HERE they are , folks — the super grandmas ( plus one grandad ) who have won their way through to the final of The People/Cadbury 's Roses Grandparent of the Year Competition . |
27 | Seven members had won their way through to the British Finals . |
28 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
29 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
30 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |