Example sentences of "came [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie always came that way back from the pub . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There are oak trees , they came that way . |
| 3 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 4 | In 1682 Ralph Thoresby , the Leeds antiquary , ‘ saw the glasshouses ’ as he passed through Silkstone , and when John Warburton came that way in 1718–19 while preparing his map of Yorkshire , he pinpointed the position of the glasshouse to the right of the road that crossed the stream just to the south of Silkstone church . |
| 5 | When the carriage stopped at Langley Dene , the butler seemed more deferential as he opened the door and Mrs Langley , instead of merely rising from her chair , came half way across the drawing-room to welcome Alexandra . |
| 6 | ‘ The ship just came another way . ’ |
| 7 | No architect gardeners came this way again . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's crazy , ’ Anne said , ‘ I 'm sure I came this way … ’ |
| 9 | The sun came this way — through the Gates of the Sun , crossing the temple , to intihuatana — here . |
| 10 | It passes a tearoom and a craft shop that confirm the emancipation of the valley from the pre-car days when few travellers came this way . |
| 11 | Lawton managed breathlessly , ‘ … came this way … did n't you see it ? ’ |
| 12 | I came this way — it 's as long as it 's short — because of Pratesi and his sausage factory . ’ |
| 13 | This Mrs Melburn , the parson 's wife … she seems a motherly figure , in a way , but that bit ’ — she pointed to the page of a letter that was on the table — ‘ that bit tells you why they came this way . ’ |
| 14 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 15 | English ships never came this way . |
| 16 | ‘ I never came this way before . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 18 | When Daniel Defoe came this way during the first quarter of the eighteenth century he observed that : |
| 19 | Came this way ? |
| 20 | I , I came this way and called on Susan , she was n't in , I ran the dog round here and er called on Susan again and she still was n't in , so that was that |
| 21 | they came look , they came this way , they did n't go , they did n't go the long way round , I believe ya , they came this way up here |
| 22 | they came look , they came this way , they did n't go , they did n't go the long way round , I believe ya , they came this way up here |
| 23 | Terry Eagleton came some way to acknowledging this , in a quasi-refutation of his Althusserian phase , when he included himself among the English Marxist intellectuals who ‘ managed the difficult dialectical trick of appropriating certain Althusserian concepts in blithe ignorance or disregard of their guilty political context . ’ |
| 24 | Several times she turned and came some way back towards me , admonishing , shaking her finger . |