Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 2 | 17.39 ( i ) Pupils should be taught the conventional ways of forming letter shapes , lower case and capitals , through purposeful guided practice in order to foster a comfortable and legible handwriting style . |
| 3 | It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way ! |
| 4 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 5 | When calculated the same way there is no tendency for the mean risk rating for a junction to determine correlations with accident estimates , r(8)=-0.047 , nor is there any similar relationship between risk and the response bias measure B , r(8)=-0.21 . |
| 6 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
| 7 | and all my beautifully arranged slides all arranged the right way up and all in the right order all tipped all over the floor . |
| 8 | It will require extensive amendment to the Bill , but given the Committee 's progress in considering part I , and given the positive way in which Opposition Members have put their case , I am happy to undertake to table amendments on Report to keep the option open to establish a funding council for further education . ’ |
| 9 | If a foster mum ca n't be found Sami will have to be hand reared at the stables in Deddington , but the owners he 's much likelier to have a healthy life if he 's reared the natural way . |
| 10 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 11 | Dealers insist that paintings should be treated the same way because of the auctions for dealers only , where ‘ dead ’ stock is exchanged and where new prices are set . |
| 12 | It 's wrong that everybody is not treated the same way . |
| 13 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you can create an old but light feeling in a Georgian house with modern furniture if it 's designed the right way . |
| 15 | His reputation was earned the hard way . |
| 16 | Now , ahead of d'Alembord , the gun-fire rumbled like dull thunder to remind him that the two thousand six hundred pounds must be earned the hard way . |
| 17 | When every simple privilege has to be earned the hard way , the struggle leaves its mark . |
| 18 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 19 | Ever since we entered the training video market , competitors have claimed the only way we can offer training videos for less than they can is because we do not bear the full cost of production , by sourcing products from broadcast programmes . |
| 20 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
| 21 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 23 | Had Charles looked the other way — south , over the town bridge — we have a very good idea of exactly what he would have seen , thanks to a contemporary engraving by Abraham Crocker . |
| 24 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |
| 25 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 26 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 27 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 28 | This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and , being light , they often blew over . |
| 29 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 30 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |