Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 3 | I began to see one way out of our dilemma . |
| 4 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 6 | I told Malpass he could find me at Stuart Street and , for a couple of streets , I did head that way . |
| 7 | It 's true that I did feel that way at the time . |
| 8 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 9 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 10 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 11 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 12 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 13 | I had to get half way under the bottom strand of barbed wire to see inside properly and as I did so , my hand closed on something smooth and rubbery half buried in the ground . |
| 14 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 15 | I wanted to stay that way . |
| 16 | you got to think that way have n't you ? |
| 17 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 18 | If you 'd gone that way . |
| 19 | She 'd rather be seen as hopelessly naïve , and she voiced her feelings , suddenly not caring if she did seem that way . |
| 20 | Not that she had dressed that way especially for him , she hastily denied . |
| 21 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 22 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
| 23 | He was unable to imagine what she was after , why she had chosen this way out , why she seemed so bloody cheerful . |
| 24 | She was a working girl , and proud of it , and she intended to stay that way … |
| 25 | Last year we continued to seek new ways of putting into action our concern for the environment . |
| 26 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 27 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 28 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 29 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 30 | When they had gone some way from here , the Garda received a radio message , stopped and turned around . |