Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was half way up the road when I saw the fire engine come . |
| 2 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 3 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 4 | There was a lot of transporter , and she was half way along it : too far in either direction to make it to safety . |
| 5 | She was half way up Stanley Street before she recovered and her heart stopped sinking in her breast . |
| 6 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 7 | There was one way to scotch this silly idea . |
| 8 | Assuming all buttons were pressed , they could see that there was one way with one button and two ways with two buttons . |
| 9 | Also , if there was any way of legally protecting historic furnishings , this could be recommended … |
| 10 | He sat watching the girl , wondering if there was any way of getting behind the mask . |
| 11 | They paid their rent every Friday ( the money was put straight into a jar for Oreste 's journey ) and always enquired if there was any way in which they could be of use to their landlady in her circumstances . |
| 12 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 13 | I do n't think there was any way in which , to let go . |
| 14 | There was another way of tackling the issue of Twyford Down . |
| 15 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 16 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 17 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 18 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 19 | It was one way of getting down , he supposed . |
| 20 | It was one way of getting money . |
| 21 | True , it was one way of keeping Dana from London and a meeting with Berenice , but why go to such lengths ? |
| 22 | It was one way of having her say . |
| 23 | They said it was half way through |
| 24 | Yeah , on the six o'clock they said it was half way through and Nigel Mansell was the lead and I thought you were watching it live , so I would n't just come through and |
| 25 | Well it was half way through when I came in |
| 26 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 27 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |
| 28 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 29 | It was another way of saying there would be no condemnations . |
| 30 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |