Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 2 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 3 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 4 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 5 | A transfer seems the only way out , but he says : ‘ I feel I still have so much to prove to Everton and myself . |
| 6 | But Raskolnikov 's nightmare calls to mind one that did , namely The Possessed , while the specific link between ‘ as men possessed ’ ( besnovatimi ) and The Possessed ( Besi , literally The Devils ) is inescapably obvious — just as the word ‘ Socialism ’ which Dostoevsky has written against the beast in Revelation coming out of the earth with horns like a lamb and speech like a dragon shows the general way his thoughts are tending . |
| 7 | But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens . |
| 8 | She made a V-sign turned the wrong way — a silent expletive — and made for the stairs . |
| 9 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 10 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
| 11 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 13 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 14 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 15 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 16 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 17 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 18 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 19 | A FORESTER drove the wrong way along a dual carriageway to escape police after hitting another car , Thirsk magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 20 | If on the other hand it goes right through the C/L continue your turn and make a 40° intercept the other way ( ie onto Hdg 130° in fig 52 ) . |
| 21 | He died instantly from head injuries caused by either the fall , or the imnpact of a train coming the other way . |
| 22 | Literature for Nizan is a mirror reflecting an alternative way of living . |
| 23 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 24 | The actual construction of a carpet goes a long way to determining how long it will keep its original appearance . |