Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes they would get together , swim at the cove , eat the Spanish way , siesta in the heat of the day , and life would be sweet and lazy and dripping with olives , vines and honey . |
2 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
3 | It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way ! |
4 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
5 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
6 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
7 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
8 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
9 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
10 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
11 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
12 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
13 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
14 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
15 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
16 | For those intending to go the whole way and get their desktop publishing typeset the question of fonts and matching width tables really does cause problems . |
17 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
18 | Is he supposed to go the opposite way ? |
19 | WHITE KNUCKLES RIDES THE AMERICAN WAY |
20 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
21 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
22 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
23 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
24 | and all my beautifully arranged slides all arranged the right way up and all in the right order all tipped all over the floor . |
25 | It will require extensive amendment to the Bill , but given the Committee 's progress in considering part I , and given the positive way in which Opposition Members have put their case , I am happy to undertake to table amendments on Report to keep the option open to establish a funding council for further education . ’ |
26 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
27 | Llangollen Railway staff at work re-railing the breakdown crane and repairing the Permanent Way following the derailment at Glyndyfrdwy . |
28 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
29 | Mr Redwood said : ‘ The M4 and the Great Western Railway that carries Welsh goods to the English market and beyond also bring English voices and influences the other way . |
30 | If a foster mum ca n't be found Sami will have to be hand reared at the stables in Deddington , but the owners he 's much likelier to have a healthy life if he 's reared the natural way . |