Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often do you get a 43-year-old singing that way now ? |
| 2 | Why did you stop singing that way ? |
| 3 | The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well . |
| 4 | Are these workmen outside of your house are they the ones with the er with the trousers hanging half way down their bum ? |
| 5 | She was walking that way , and I could hardly ignore her . |
| 6 | Walking that way enables one to photograph the trains in action without violating the railway . |
| 7 | And me dad was walking that way . |
| 8 | Come here are you walking that way . |
| 9 | I was walking that way with Ernest on Saturday and he said he thought the bottom hedge belonged to anyway . |
| 10 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 11 | This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ? |
| 12 | This is a unhelpful because it 's winding that way yet it looks as if it 's winding that way , does n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ When I saw Ivo with a parcel he was about to mail to his wife 's cousin in Karlovy Vary , I told him I was driving that way , and that I 'd drop it into the shop where Edita 's cousin works if he wished . ’ |
| 14 | Everything seems to be happening some way off , as if behind glass . |
| 15 | She was assailed by contrary , half-formed forebodings : Rosa was making an error of judgement , she was imagining things , or , even if she were n't , Tommaso was like a dustdevil , twisting this way and that . |
| 16 | She leans back twisting this way and that , |
| 17 | Dark eyes twinkle below the brim of the ubiquitous Honduran baseball cap , his compact campesino frame twisting this way and that to survey his little kingdom . |
| 18 | Obispal spotted a lone purestrain Stealer lurking some way down a dismal arcade lined by shuttered clothing stores . |
| 19 | ‘ She was seen walking this way , ’ he said . |
| 20 | THE following morning dawned bright and warm and , being weary of towns , I settled on driving some way down the Rhine and then exploring one of the country roads . |
| 21 | And edging round the corner , checking all ways , there was a parked car , there 's a van parked the opposite side of the road so anything turning in had to come over into my , the path of me |
| 22 | Thus , for example , the simple Ben is also variously spelt as Beinn , Bheinn and Bienne , and Meal ( a hill ) also appears as Meall , Mheall , Meallan and Maolle ; furthermore , the vowels in the names bristle with accents sloping both ways . |
| 23 | Jordan 's patrol , passing that way the night before , had been spotted , and had then shot up some trucks . |
| 24 | Traffic was passing that way as early as the Shang dynasty and under the Han the silk route was crucial enough to be incorporated in the Empire . |
| 25 | Then as they emerged into a street she looked down at the child , and nodding backwards , she said , ‘ It saves ten minutes of pushing that way . ’ |
| 26 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 27 | Er well Susan 's very much into music and erm I think she thinks she 'd like to earn her living that way but it 's a very hard way to earn a living . |
| 28 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 29 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |
| 30 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |