Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 3 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 4 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 5 | She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays . |
| 6 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 7 | Best of all is Donald Maxwell , marvellously sinister as the hunchback Prime Minister , Leander , sidling on in a way to chill the blood . |
| 8 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 9 | Anybody that you 've trampled on along the way |
| 10 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 11 | Do you mind if I just go on in the way I 'm used to ? ’ |
| 12 | We 've had the speakers up here saying that they 're going out , they 're knocking on doors , so you know , it 's not just about money , but I tell you what if they go on in the way they 're going on there 's no way Joe Bloggs is going out quite tonight on a vote night saying come out and give us your vote . |
| 13 | Right boys , come on out the way now . |