Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of Day Two , the sun seemed to shine on Worcestershire , but the game has turned the other way since tea . |
| 2 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 3 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |
| 4 | Trevor of Bridgend was 59 last birthday and has learned the hard way that insurance gets harder to acquire the older one gets . |
| 5 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 6 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 7 | And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life . |
| 8 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
| 9 | It could have turned the other way ; in case you might think this was a simple transaction — it was not . |
| 10 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 11 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 12 | Surely any woman would have reacted the same way on discovering a supposed admirer was in reality only after her possessions ? |
| 13 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 14 | The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I came to the conclusion that he must have gone the other way , along the track leading to the road . ’ |
| 16 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 17 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 18 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 19 | I fear it may have gone the same way as Honest John 's other great idea , the hard ecu . |
| 20 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 21 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 22 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 23 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 24 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 25 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 30 | Under a lot of pressure trying to get quarts out of pint pots and I think y you you 've suffered the same way . |