Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 2 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 3 | According to one Birmingham newspaper , Reeve came up with a novel way of ensuring he was not forgotten , appearing in a city restaurant wearing his blue England shirt , name across his shoulder-blades . |
| 4 | But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled . |
| 5 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 6 | The abolition of capital punishment and reform of the law on homosexuality came about in a similar way . |
| 7 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |
| 8 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 9 | Put the line ferret through the system and the loose ferret may well be located and subsequently dug out in the same way as a rabbit . |
| 10 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 11 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 12 | The computation involved is complicated , but well within the powers of a small box of modern electronic components wired up in the proper way . |
| 13 | She stroked him absently , and Mrs Diggory got up in a determined way . |
| 14 | As they walked back along the paved way between the Union building and the Science block he said , ‘ Did the insulin project ever come to anything ? ’ |
| 15 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 17 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 18 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 19 | Nor were they in Europe , where it took off in a big way as the cult movie of the moment , especially in countries where the dire American dialogue could be dubbed over or subtitled with more viable prose . |
| 20 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 21 | He looked up in a thoughtful way that made Carrie nervous but all he said was , ‘ Well , Carrie , I 'm much obliged to you ! |
| 22 | Yesterday , the former chums fell out in a big way . |
| 23 | I think if we went back to the Inca ways , things would get better . |
| 24 | Another day passed by in the same way . |
| 25 | The paper back is pasted , and the roll put up in the same way as standard wallpaper . |
| 26 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 27 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 28 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 29 | So League teams kicked off in the usual way , while the guns blazed across the Channel . |