Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the end of the afternoon , an east wind was chivvying its self-important way across the North Sea , the sun was losing its heat , and most people had gone home . |
| 2 | The theory only requires that the learner should be a kind of humanoid receptacle in a maximal state of receptivity so that the input can enter to work its mysterious way . |
| 3 | The disadvantage of DOS based programs is that each has its unique way of dealing with the word-processing process and , therefore , different commands for each must be learnt . |
| 4 | But you know , she has her sweet way with me , |
| 5 | The drovers ' roads of the Midlands were particularly important , for it was along these that the great traffic in cattle from Wales to London and the Midland markets found its leisurely way . |
| 6 | THE New Zealand Rugby League tourists must envy the amount of publicity — and the financial rewards — currently being enjoyed by their countrymen from the unsullied ‘ amateur ’ world of Rugby Union as the latter grind their remorseless way around Wales and Ireland . |
| 7 | He did n't come that day , or the next , and a host of mocking little phrases found their insidious way into her mind . |
| 8 | But EP , after a slow start , found their winning ways again with Rushmere and the new-ball pairing of young paceman Rudi Bryson , considered unlucky to have missed selection for the World Cup , and West Indian Eldine Baptiste their most successful performers . |
| 9 | The woman who gave this account thereafter changed her established way of life to become an activist in the Greenham Common protest against the siting there of cruise missiles . |
| 10 | And it had , till he had entered her life and changed her whole way of thinking . |
| 11 | It offers women , Coward argues , the fantasised pleasure ( and apotheosis of sexual desire ) of finding security in the strong arms of the hard-bitten patriarchal hero , along with the pleasure of having ‘ tamed ’ him and domesticated his wild ways by the power one enjoys over him in being a woman . |
| 12 | Sillars Stalker maintained his winning ways for Lynda Ramsden in the Tom Pepper Handicap Hurdle , accounting for hard-driven Coney Dove without Adrian Maguire moving a muscle . |
| 13 | ‘ Dear Lord and Father of mankind , Forgive our foolish ways … |
| 14 | That wretched thumb was in her mouth again ; it left her mouth and she watched the hand it belonged to inch its slow way across the counterpane towards his , almost as though it had nothing to do with her . |
| 15 | In London , as in Washington , the ending of the war in 1945 gave rise to the feeling that , if each state was not about to go its separate way , the wartime intimacy had definitely weakened . |
| 16 | There they decided to go their separate ways and were not to join forces again for another three years . |
| 17 | It turns out that the heaviest of the four upsilon particles has sufficient mass to decay radioactively into two B mesons , the b quark and antiquark splitting up to go their separate ways in the two B mesons . |
| 18 | ( The animal-based glue dries out over the years and like many a good duo , the two eventually split up to go their separate ways . ) |
| 19 | As TODAY disclosed , Diana and Charles have reached an agreement to go their separate ways within the marriage . |
| 20 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 21 | Historical evidence would suggest that American and French sign languages began to go their separate ways in 1816 , when French Sign Language was imported with the French deaf teacher Clerc ; one would therefore expect a very high degree of similarity , as 1816 is very recent in glottochronological terms , and the percentage of cognate signs should be over 90 per cent . |
| 22 | The EEC and EFTA seemed determined to go their separate ways , and to regard each other as a rival , not a partner . |
| 23 | Fremont , California-based Lam Research Corp has failed to reach agreement for acquisition of Westech Systems Inc and the two have agreed to go their separate ways . |
| 24 | for my metals to go their separate ways … |
| 25 | Although Reed and Random House discussed the possibility of a publishing joint venture , Ingrid Selberg of Reed and Piet Snyman of RH decided in the end that they wanted to go their separate ways . |
| 26 | splits up and goes its separate ways we 're not getting ten gallons a minute through that pipe or through that or |
| 27 | The bonding continues after the show , where it 's back to the Hyatt for one last booze-up before everybody goes their separate ways . |
| 28 | Oxford , last years winners , are determined to continue their winning ways … and today they accepted the Cambridge challenge at the London Rowing Club alongside the Thames . |
| 29 | With no Mrs Geary to guide her , she plunged her ambitious way through the exotics of the European Cook Book . |
| 30 | She made her leisurely way towards where she had told Alexander to be . |