Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 2 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 3 | He showed pictures of a recent trip he had made along the Cumbrian Way . |
| 4 | All were down on their luck , all had been drinking and all had decided on an easy way out . |
| 5 | She stretched her hands out and warmed them thankfully , remembering those happier times when , as children , she and Mark had argued about the best way to light a fire , had helped their mother after many disheartening attempts with damp wood and wet coal . |
| 6 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 7 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 8 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 11 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 12 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 13 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 14 | She was breathing quickly , and I realized she had run by a quicker way to get ahead of me . |
| 15 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 16 | 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 . |