Example sentences of "[noun] take the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiona took the long way back to Loch Lomond , via Perth and Comrie and Loch Earn , stopping for a meal at a wayside hotel , then heading south via Glen Dochart just after nine o'clock . |
| 2 | I mean , let's face it , I 'm in a no-win Situation , and quite honestly , I 'm so stuffed up to here with the whole Stupid mess that , I can tell you , I 've just Got a good mind to take the quick way out . |
| 3 | ‘ Jenner took the easiest way he could . |
| 4 | The first Gothic writers took the easy way . |
| 5 | He offered the pack to Bellamy , who accepted one , and conspicuously failed to give me the chance to take the easy way out by tarring the inside of my lungs until I choked . |
| 6 | ‘ Bored with my company already ? ’ — which not surprisingly Stuart took the wrong way . |
| 7 | Sartre considered that orthodox dialectical materialism takes the easy way out by merely eliminating the first in favour of the second , making man a passive product entirely determined by economic circumstances . |
| 8 | There is an ever-present temptation to take the easy way out and concentrate on items that are ‘ sexy ’ even though they may be irrelevant or misleading . |
| 9 | The temptation to take the easy way out was well-nigh irresistible with youngsters who had failed to make their way ( probably through no fault of their own ) and who showed their resentment . |
| 10 | There is , of course , no temptation to take the quick way out by grating it . |
| 11 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |