Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 I 'd already gone that way twice .
2 I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them .
3 ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other .
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 I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences .
8 I have already mentioned two ways by which it is possible to travel eastwards out of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and into the Mauléon valley , both of them remote and somewhat tortuous : the mountain roads through Ahusquy or over the Col Bagargui a little further south .
9 You 've always felt that way .
10 She had never felt this way before , and did n't know how to cope with it .
11 she 's just looked this way now .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 We should note that we have already moved some way from the Greek conception of democracy as government by the people themselves .
15 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 .
16 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definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link .
17 To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised .
18 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 .
19 But it has not happened this way .
20 It has already found numerous ways of making changes at A-level acceptable .
21 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 .
22 It had n't worked that way .
23 Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way .
24 It had just happened that way .
25 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 .
26 It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese !
27 It 's only got 4 ways .
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