Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] the way " in BNC.
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1 | It really is a bit odd the way those two bits of the wood do not connect . |
2 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
3 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
4 | Its gradient is the speed all the way through here . |
5 | Isabel had clung to those words all the way home , wrapped snugly in fitzAlan 's cloak , held fast in his arms . |
6 | Coaching is his big strength and that 's why he made such a phenomenal start , taking a bad side all the way to Wembley . |
7 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
8 | Sometimes the duchess held the syringe all the way through a play , claiming it prevented her getting a headache in the stuffy theatre . |
9 | It was park and pheasant covert and partridge manor all the way . |
10 | Bonetti has his own boat , and has taken Walker all the way to Sardinia . |
11 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
12 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
13 | I know , there 's steps all the way up the front |
14 | With the town of Polzeath in sight the path hugs the coast all the way around Pentire Point — the beach at Hayle Bay marks the start of the town . |
15 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
16 | He always felt comfortable with his knowledge of the field and he was in command all the way . |
17 | In fact , it was earlier than I wanted to be in front , but then he galloped on in his stride all the way to the line . |
18 | Drive your own car all the way , or let the train take you part of the way with a SNCF motorail package to Milan or Rome . |
19 | ‘ I burned rubber in the car all the way to the hospital . |
20 | ‘ I even managed to drive my mother 's car all the way out here by myself this evening ! ’ |
21 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
22 | With a sickening reverberation the words stayed in her mind all the way back to her room . |
23 | Gives , gives her the cramps all the way across here . |
24 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |
25 | She was on Beth 's heels all the way back to the drawing room , and now , when Beth was seated in the big armchair and eagerly slitting open the envelope with the tortoise-shell letter-knife , Cissie was kneeling on the floor beside her . |
26 | In Botha , they have a prolific goal-kicker , drop-goal expert and an elusive wisp of a fly-half who manages to steer clear of hunting flankers and can drill the opposition all the way back to their own 22 with one flashing kick . |
27 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
28 | She dragged the zip all the way down and eased the top over his shoulders , leaving his arms trapped behind him while she ran her hands lovingly over his chest . |
29 | There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window . |
30 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |