Example sentences of "gone the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 2 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 3 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 4 | Baldwin then made no demur against the Chancellor 's recommendation ; there would have been a greater chance of his demurring had the decision gone the other way , not because of his views but because of his admiration and affection for Montagu Norman , the intellectually certain Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 5 | The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I came to the conclusion that he must have gone the other way , along the track leading to the road . ’ |
| 7 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 8 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |
| 9 | But if the means of communication have moved in a more public direction , the images have gone the other way . |
| 10 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 11 | Jessica had deliberately gone the other way — she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties . |
| 12 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 13 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 14 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 15 | And er David and Pam must of gone the other way you know , they 'd gone their way home , and had gone her way home . |
| 16 | If he was in such a desperate hurry , he could have gone round and gone the other way |
| 17 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 18 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 19 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
| 20 | Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it . |
| 21 | Bit of both oh right , that 's a good idea , see you Gone the wrong way a post box got a letter to post |
| 22 | I 've gone the wrong way round now have n't I ? |
| 23 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 24 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 25 | I fear it may have gone the same way as Honest John 's other great idea , the hard ecu . |
| 26 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 27 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 28 | Maggie 's gone the opposite way from Tesco 's ; her heels are sinking into grass . |
| 29 | ] Will the ‘ Twelve ’ have established a relatively open trading relationship with the rest of the world or will it , accepting that a common external tariff will remain , have gone the opposite way and created a protectionist Europe what is often referred to as Fortress Europe ? |
| 30 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |