Example sentences of "go the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right . |
| 2 | You could argue — and some do — that such puddings ought to go the way of the dodo now that we all lead more sedentary and centrally heated lives . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 4 | Do n't want her to go the way of Baby , do you now ? ’ |
| 5 | It is an Army Town and we were its children , destined , if unlucky , to go the way that nearly 2,000 of its children did years before and would do again . |
| 6 | Even in Kyrgyzstan , one of two republics trying to go the way of democracy and keep the fundamentalists at bay , the Slavs are packing their bags . |
| 7 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 8 | ‘ To gain access to the question of Being-on-drugs we have had to go the way of literature , ’ Avital Ronell proclaims . |
| 9 | I 'm just askin' for to go the way you 're goin' to ; |
| 10 | Or is the idea merely a piece of folklore belief , sustained over the centuries by an inexact understanding of the quality of lunacy and destined to go the way of other popular myths , such as phrenology , astrology , and Mesmerism ? |
| 11 | In a letter to Horsley nine days later he wrote : ‘ I believe that if the decision is made to go the way of the Sun , the tragedy will be of historic proportions . |
| 12 | She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted . |
| 13 | We refuse to accept the human and inevitable tragedy of aging , even in the case of contemporary art , which we condemn to an unwanted permanence , despite its attempt to go the way of all flesh . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 15 | I did n't mean it to go the way it did . |
| 16 | Ken himself would have gone along with Michael Codron 's judgement of being the finest revue actor of the day — not realizing that revue was about to go the way of music hall . |
| 17 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 18 | We should turn off the television and play Scrabble instead , so that our minds are challenged : ‘ If the economy goes the way we think it will , your extra brain power will come in handy . ’ |
| 19 | But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions . |
| 20 | The conversation was n't going the way he 'd intended it to . |
| 21 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 22 | On the BBC 's Standing Room Only programme at 6.50 tonight , Newbon discusses the chances of an English club going the way of French team Paris St Germain , who were bought by Chanel Plus last year . |
| 23 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
| 24 | IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment . |
| 25 | ‘ Tom was a fairly astute captain in many respects , but to me he was a typical fighting captain and was always prepared to try something if things were not going the way he thought . ’ |
| 26 | The war was going the way of neither side . |
| 27 | When things were not going the way Stephen wanted them to , he could be very hard on people , she had learned . |
| 28 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 29 | This was n't going the way she 'd intended . |
| 30 | Better that than going the way of Aldershot . ’ |