Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [prep] some way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
2 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
3 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
4 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
5 | And next door to him , number five they 're an elderly couple erm and they 've got one of their sons living there at erm he 's disabled in some way but I 'm not quite sure how . |