Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 2 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 3 | It 's my guess that Louisa came to feel this way — that that 's why she burned her book . |
| 4 | Its tail began to move this way and that with a faint , swishing noise . |
| 5 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 6 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 7 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 8 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 9 | The girl had come this way , she was sure . |
| 10 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 11 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 12 | It led through still more lofty halls and winding corridors quite big enough for a dragon ( and dragons had come this way once , it seemed ; there was a room lull of rotting harness , dragon-sized , and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants ) . |
| 13 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 14 | No charts or sailing directions then existed for the coast beyond Cabo Santa Maria : no one had ventured this way before . |
| 15 | The symbol of a lost civilization which had walked this way when the cosmos was still young . |
| 16 | Accidentally , obliquely , the squadron had found this way of striking back . |
| 17 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 18 | Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult , and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait 's exit , before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan , now perfectly confident of his discovery , named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos — All Saints ' Strait . |
| 19 | This is not often mentioned in the documents , but two of the surviving women compositors I was able to interview said they had started this way . |
| 20 | I wondered if Anna May Wong had passed this way . |
| 21 | ‘ But if you really had discovered this way of changing people , why did you stop ? ’ |
| 22 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |