Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] way " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 2 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 3 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 4 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 5 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 6 | After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ? |
| 7 | I wondered if people would ever go back to the old ways . |
| 8 | I think if we went back to the Inca ways , things would get better . |