Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 2 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 3 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 4 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 5 | Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner . |
| 6 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
| 7 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 8 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 9 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 10 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 12 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 13 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 14 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 15 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 16 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 17 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 18 | So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one . |
| 19 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 20 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 21 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 22 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 23 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 24 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 25 | The kitchen windows looked out the wrong way anyhow . |
| 26 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 27 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 28 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 29 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 30 | If we can get man set up the same way we 'll have a real world-beater on our hands . ’ |