Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 2 | So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one . |
| 3 | But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work . |
| 4 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 6 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 7 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 8 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 9 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 10 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 11 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 12 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 13 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 14 | and you can turn over one way or you can turn over the other way . |
| 15 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 16 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 17 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 18 | round that square then back up the other way betwe up through the factories |
| 19 | Going up the other way . |
| 20 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |
| 21 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 22 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 23 | If it is at this point that Freud 's theory exceeds itself and is forced beyond the realm of the verifiable into that of speculation , this is also the point at which Such picks up the Freudian way of thinking . |
| 24 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 25 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 26 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 27 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 28 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 29 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 30 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |