Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 2 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |
| 3 | They drove back the way they had come . |
| 4 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 5 | He faded back the way they had come . |
| 6 | With that , careless of his obvious amazement that someone of her slender weight could not only pack such a punch but dare to do so , she spun rapidly round and raced back the way she had come . |
| 7 | After a quarter of a century , the old village is much the same … but for some the development killed off a way of life . |
| 8 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 9 | He walked back the way he had come and let himself out by a gate in the railing where a metal notice planted in the earth read : Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | George grew bored and picked fern leaves , stripping them , only leaving the stem , then he stood up and walked back the way they had come . |
| 11 | Shivering in their nakedness , and all shorn of their hair , the actors kept on only their stage boots as they walked back the way they had come . |
| 12 | He also glanced back the way he had come . |
| 13 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 14 | They passed back the way they had come , past the gleaming white walls and up the stairs . |
| 15 | They took an alley which doubled back the way they had come and then they branched off it . |
| 16 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 17 | One German dog breeder worked out a way to have his cake and eat it . |
| 18 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 19 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 20 | They turned on their heels and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 21 | Old Herky turned around and slowly started back the way he had come . |
| 22 | Before she could pull away from him he jerked loose his grip and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 23 | He ran in Alexei 's direction , saw Alexei in his path , and turned and scuttled back the way he had come . |
| 24 | Her spine pressed against the rough bricks of one of the walls , she stared back the way she 'd come . |
| 25 | He went back the way he had come , hearing the music ahead of him , and recognized the tune of a Geordie air . |
| 26 | For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before . |
| 27 | With a quick smile , and not really having any choice , Ellie climbed back into her car , turned on the muddy track , and went back the way she 'd come . |
| 28 | Some joker had daubed the pub sign on the reverse of a notice which looked back the way I had come . |
| 29 | Jotan looked back the way they had come . |
| 30 | He ran back the way they 'd come . |