Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [verb] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already gone that way twice . |
| 2 | I 'd better go another way home , the long way round . |
| 3 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 4 | Er this is , I mean I 've just got that way . |
| 5 | I 've never felt this way before . |
| 6 | Because , ’ she qualified hastily as he broke stride to look narrowly at her , ‘ I 've never travelled this way before . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , you 'd better find some way of getting over it , my girl — you wo n't be managing the club forever . ’ |
| 8 | You 've always felt that way . |
| 9 | She had never felt this way before , and did n't know how to cope with it . |
| 10 | she 's just looked this way now . |
| 11 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |
| 12 | But , we 've still got some way to go towards collecting together all of the other things around the place , so that this extra committee can have a look at it and decide whether these forms are relevant , necessary , should be controlled or not . |
| 13 | We should note that we have already moved some way from the Greek conception of democracy as government by the people themselves . |
| 14 | Indirectly , we have already explored this way of thinking in our consideration of the proposal that pragmatics is " meaning minus semantics " , and the idea that some distinction from sociolinguistics is necessary was responsible for some of the dissatisfaction with a number of the definitions above . |
| 15 | 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definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link . |
| 16 | To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised . |
| 17 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 18 | But it has not happened this way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It had n't worked that way . |
| 21 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 22 | It had just happened that way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |