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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] way " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .