Example sentences of "have [verb] in the [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate .
2 The question has arisen in the following way .
3 I would like you to watch me interview him ’ — immediately lets the class off the hook of having to participate in the normal way .
4 But the converse is that if you can make it work you 'll have bought a fair lease on a prime site that you could never have afforded in the ordinary way .
5 Oh I 've come in the wrong way
6 Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse .
7 The process of scrutiny and amendment which had begun in the usual way in a Standing Committee upstairs , was interrupted when the Bill was returned unexpectedly to the floor of the House .
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