Example sentences of "[adj] way [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall contrive some way however to get me down to Maitland town and the end of the week , when I shall make my way to Hobart Town the best way I can . |
| 2 | Ministers who feel that they are in some way personally to blame , will normally resign , as for example Lord Carrington as Foreign Secretary following the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands and ministers such as John Profumo and Cecil Parkinson who were involved in personal scandals . |
| 3 | I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good . |
| 4 | You ai n't come all this way just to collar me , ‘ ave you ? |
| 5 | ‘ Silas , darling — I 've come all this way just to see you and to be with you . |
| 6 | But erm and I just felt oh fancy all this way just to come and sit and play cards . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't come all this way just to tell me you despise me , have you ? ’ |
| 8 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 9 | I decided that I had not come all this way only to indulge in polite conversation . |
| 10 | ‘ It sounds the wrong way round to choose the area because of the premises . |
| 11 | It is of course possible to use language in a premeditated and reflective way consciously to construct meaning . |
| 12 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 13 | Erm , it 's very important that we find a joint way forward to make sure that whatever the future of local government is in this county , there is an effi effective and efficient purchasing erm , er service me who did the moving . |
| 14 | Both Historie and Geschichte may be translated as ‘ history ’ , and both historisch and geschichtlich as ‘ historical ’ ; and there is no easy way directly to represent in English the contrast he drew between them . |
| 15 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Teresa finds herself learning the hard way how to survive in Africa and she discovers that its beauty is not without danger . |
| 17 | Bearing those points in mind one seven eight offers a better way forward to use the skills and experience of our lay officials and members . |
| 18 | This is a good way to make known the University and a good way too to remind graduates of their Nottingham connection . |
| 19 | Now one must go a long way upriver to find them , far into Sudan and Uganda . |
| 20 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 21 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 22 | Otherwise you 'll grow to hate your notebook , which would be unfortunate because portable computing may be the most effective way yet to exploit time spent away from the office . |
| 23 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave said he was pleased there had been agreement on a ‘ practical way forward to examine this sensitive and complex issue ’ . |
| 24 | Both men know the only way ahead to avoid a national racial bloodbath is to get together and start talking again . |
| 25 | In the end he realizes that the only way truly to understand his father is to become him ; he presents the evidence he has collected as a reconstruction of his father 's actions , thought processes , and emotions . |
| 26 | Legislation in the 1970s attempted to improve matters , but the only way realistically to overcome the problem is to provide more local authority dwellings near farms since owner-occupancy is beyond the means of virtually all agricultural employees . |
| 27 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |
| 28 | So she had made her fear-filled way home to spend another night in the cellar , her moods alternating between terror and self-pity , until the high , sweet sound of the all clear brought relief and anger . |
| 29 | Absolutely I mean i the the the trouble I 'd find it is is is the right way round to tackle it . |
| 30 | You could do that and it would be easy to do it that way then to do it with time sheets . |