Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 2 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 3 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 4 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 5 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 6 | Osterlind himself told it this way . |
| 7 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 8 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 9 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 10 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 11 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 12 | Alan showed me another way out of the bar , so we avoided Young Trotsky , and walked with me to the van . |
| 13 | Yes she licked him half way through a bad one . |
| 14 | She hated it that way . |
| 15 | ‘ I followed him some way behind . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Only because you steered it that way , ’ Belinda said crossly . |
| 17 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |
| 18 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 19 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 20 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 21 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 22 | He certainly Dreamed them that way . |
| 23 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 24 | I wished you 'd know , you could have took them Milky Way for |
| 25 | Why , if Bostock treated her that way she would be inclined to fetch a stick to him , for the vapours ( as Mrs Frere so dismally attested ) would be the sole alternative . |
| 26 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 27 | So he clicked it all way and it come up I says now get your green line I says straight down middle and tune it in . |
| 28 | I get your point , but we never actually meant it that way . |
| 29 | I BLOODY WELL WILL to show her , is what I thought so it was a shot of adrenalin I needed … not , I know , that she meant it that way . |
| 30 | CATHERINE I do n't suppose he meant it that way . |