Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She meant I did n't girn or make a fuss , and meant I should have stayed that way . |
| 2 | I knew I should have found some way to follow that pair up to the pond . |
| 3 | I was pretty mad and must have sounded that way . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have fallen that way . |
| 5 | I felt sure she must have escaped this way . |
| 6 | ‘ It must have happened that way , I suppose . |
| 7 | She must have come this way often enough , she was a diligent churchgoer . ’ |
| 8 | Tolby must have had some way of preventing Hubert from talking . |
| 9 | ‘ He must have passed this way . ’ |
| 10 | But if I know our Emily , she 'll have found some way of getting out of City Europe . |
| 11 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 12 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 13 | According to Greg McLatchie , director of the National Sports Medicine Institute at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , and consultant surgeon at the Hartlepool General Hospital , it might have worked either way . |
| 14 | Mark you , it might have worked both ways . |
| 15 | The head-on film showed Carroll House had rolled to his right , inhibiting the French-trained Behera , though not actually making contact , and the verdict could have gone either way . |
| 16 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 17 | " It was so tight we felt it could have gone either way . |
| 18 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 19 | Both teams had some near misses and the score could have gone either way . |
| 20 | It could have gone either way but a draw really was the only fair result . |
| 21 | It could have gone either way in a sense . |
| 22 | Robertson said : ‘ It was one of these matches that could have gone either way , but it 's very disappointing to lose all three sets on a 7-6 scoreline . ’ |
| 23 | Almondsbury came more into it as the last twenty minutes came and erm forced a few corners ; Banbury had probably the more chances of getting the elusive winner erm but the game could have gone either way and I think after all is considered erm the final result was a fair result . |
| 24 | The match could have swung either way in the final gripping 20 minutes . |
| 25 | On balance , she had to admit that it could have happened that way . |
| 26 | Well , it could have happened that way . |
| 27 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 28 | Nevertheless , a broad understanding of the present Jovian interior , and how it could have got that way after its initial formation , now exists . |
| 29 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 30 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |