Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Has not my right hon. and learned Friend conclusively convinced the House that only a Conservative Government have the courage to reduce taxation on the one hand and to get rid of taxes on the other , in contradistinction to nearly all other Governments before them , and especially the one between 1974 and 1979 who found endless ways of leaching money out of other people 's pockets ? |
| 3 | Moreover , anarchists and socialists who offered alternative ways forward had few tangible achievements with which to support their arguments . |
| 4 | Now when we were taught sums like that , probably erm they were written down and we had special ways of writing it to distinguish between the two cases four times and then two plus one added together , to give us four times three equals twelve , or , four times two , which is eight , add one , which is nine . |
| 5 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 6 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 7 | And they had other ways of raising money . |
| 8 | He tried various ways of categorising events — as desirable ( arrival of a wanted new baby ) or undesirable ( compulsory redundancy ) or according to whether they represented exits from or entrances to the subject 's life . |
| 9 | He recalled other ways in which she had led him on ; the snowy mittened fingers laid on his arm during their walks , the occasional side-glance as if to show that he did not displease her , her endurance , to say the least , of his company . |
| 10 | But its interface was easy to use ; it had clear ways of defining fields . |
| 11 | He had persuasive ways with some of the poorer countries and he had , he thought , the backing of some of the big men in Formula One . |
| 12 | He illustrated different ways in which reading , for example , could be taught , and how some children may not be ‘ mature ’ enough to cope with a ‘ look and say ’ approach , or may not develop that way . |
| 13 | A very powerful account , And I Do n't Want To Live This Life , was written by the mother of a girl who , from infancy , had behaved in what seemed abnormal ways . |