Example sentences of "it was [verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 2 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 3 | Whether it was pointing the right way to capture who planted the bomb , we are still checking . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 5 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 6 | so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge |