Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [verb] that way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already gone that way twice . |
| 2 | Er this is , I mean I 've just got that way . |
| 3 | You 've always felt that way . |
| 4 | They 'd definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link . |
| 5 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 6 | It had n't worked that way . |
| 7 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 8 | It had just happened that way . |
| 9 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 10 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |