Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The symbol of a lost civilization which had walked this way when the cosmos was still young . |
| 3 | Not that she had dressed that way especially for him , she hastily denied . |
| 4 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 5 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 6 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 7 | No charts or sailing directions then existed for the coast beyond Cabo Santa Maria : no one had ventured this way before . |
| 8 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |
| 9 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 13 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 14 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 15 | He wished it had happened that way . |
| 16 | She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way . |
| 17 | The first point which everybody had overlooked was that Wordsworth hoped ‘ to make money ’ with Lyrical Ballads , and presumably thought that he had gone some way in making concessions to popular taste . |
| 18 | Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone . |
| 19 | One boy said he had found six ways with 1 at the front . |