Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 2 | Well I have done it this way even for trivial things , because I understood that the committee had to approve the changes and if as I said it seem to me erm , wasteful to get er , Monica to make the changes when they might not be accepted . |
| 3 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 4 | And since then you 've gone your own way and the Gardener Centre 's gone its own way and it 's , to be honest , gone down and up and down and |
| 5 | Sort of , how do you feel about du du du du du du du y'know sort of yes definitely to no not all or y'know kind of does n't bother me to very angry or something like that but given that you 've done it this way , I think it works reasonably well . |
| 6 | Not if you 've turned it that way cos then you wo n't be able |
| 7 | ‘ So you 've got your own way after all . |
| 8 | Erm it 's just that it throws you a bit if you 've learnt them that way . |
| 9 | So she had made her fear-filled way home to spend another night in the cellar , her moods alternating between terror and self-pity , until the high , sweet sound of the all clear brought relief and anger . |
| 10 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's had her own way too long now . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's only hard because between us we 've made it that way , ’ he murmured softly . |
| 13 | We 've got them Milky Ways to take back yet . |
| 14 | We 've got one any way so we could n't have it , but they 're , they 're gon na have it put down . |
| 15 | The major problem being , if one of our children gets out of hand , one our own children , we 've got our own ways of dealing with it . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 18 | In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it . |
| 19 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 20 | Mind you , that could have been because he was happy he 'd got his own way . |
| 21 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable . |