Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down . |
| 5 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 6 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 10 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The kitchen windows looked out the wrong way anyhow . |
| 13 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If we can get man set up the same way we 'll have a real world-beater on our hands . ’ |
| 16 | If those tests turn out the right way tomorrow — ’ she glanced at her watch , remembering they were now in the early hours of the morning — ‘ or rather tonight , it 'll be worth bringing Parkin in . ’ |
| 17 | It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation . |
| 18 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |