Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 2 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
| 3 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 4 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 5 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 6 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 7 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 8 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 9 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 10 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
| 11 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 12 | The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ? |
| 13 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 14 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 15 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 16 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 17 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 18 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 19 | And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’ |
| 20 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 21 | So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one . |
| 22 | We now walk along a covered way called the Ride , designed for exercising Infirmary Patients , and also for testing for freedom from disease or otherwise of the Respiratory Organs of horses prior to purchase . |
| 23 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 24 | And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more . |
| 25 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 26 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 27 | Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner . |
| 28 | At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way . |
| 29 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 30 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |