Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SOLDIER was critically injured yesterday after driving the wrong way down a fogbound motorway . |
| 2 | The car was eventually stopped after driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway . |
| 3 | ‘ Pulling into a thirty-five-foot tube would be as close to a cosmic experience as you can get , short of surfing the Milky Way . |
| 4 | What Broad and Wade do is an excellent job of documenting the countless ways in which careerism has corrupted every field of science . |
| 5 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 6 | In rehearsal it is a matter of establishing the correct way to play the notes . |
| 7 | When you get out the door he 's sort of going the other way ! |
| 8 | The commander , a Yugoslav general , shuttles back and forth on direct flights instead of going the long way round through Turkey . |
| 9 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 10 | The idea of proceeding the other way round — discovering what we do well , and whole-heartedly , and contriving to make a living by it — seldom occurs . |
| 11 | Now , so , that up there so it 's sort of facing the right way . |
| 12 | And er David and Pam must of gone the other way you know , they 'd gone their way home , and had gone her way home . |
| 13 | This being the case , we can expect pragmatic and discoursal behaviour to be important means of identifying the different ways in which Anderson is " vague " in conversation . |
| 14 | Food chemists have investigated guar bread in the hopes of finding a palatable way of increasing the fibre in the diet of diabetics . |
| 15 | The questions already raised about the possibility of conflicts of interest between health and social services ( for example , will people on care programmes have access to local authority resources for residential care ? ) illustrate the even greater complexity of distinguishing between health and social care in mental health and the desirability of finding a global way of dealing with the details of packaging multidisciplinary care . |
| 16 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 17 | Walking is really two separate transport modes , as travel on foot to access other modes such as car or bus is different in almost all respects from walking the whole way . |
| 18 | By the same token love is called upon to find a constructive way to point out a selfish behaviour in my partner . |
| 19 | The pressure was on — add a new chat-up line was born : ‘ Would you like to join me in testing a new way to prevent childbirth and other medical misfortunes ? ’ |
| 20 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There are lots of very important issues between general aviation and the CAA : the cost of safety regulation , concern that there should be no overlapping between JAA and Safety Regulation Group activity , anxiety that we have n't yet succeeded with our European partners in finding a common way of funding safety regulation . |
| 22 | John the Baptist urges us to lose no time in making a straight way for the Lord . |
| 23 | A series of five different Employment Acts since 1979 have succeeded in changing the whole way in which Trade Unions operate . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm used to walking a long way carrying the baby . ’ |
| 25 | Register Office , as for The Rational , but with the following additional extras : parents of bride and groom ( if living ) ; blessing in church afterwards ( if either spouse already divorced , or if neither party can agree on going the whole way in a church wedding ) ; any children born pre-union can also be baptised in a job lot , along with the blessing ; more guests and consequently , bigger knees-up at the couple 's home ( or even in a hired room ; marquees are not supplied with this model ) . |
| 26 | Between the two lay the formidable barrier of the River Spey , which , as late as 17 March , was said to be ‘ so swelled with snow melting down from the hills that it will not be fordable without going a great way up the country ’ . |
| 27 | Capacitor discharging over over running the opposite way and then that 's not drawn properly but you know what |
| 28 | Moving back to the turn of the century and the pre-First World War period we seem little nearer to finding the traditional way of life based on a ‘ healthy respect for law and order ’ . |
| 29 | Grimsby have built a reputation for playing the right way . |
| 30 | FRUSTRATED motorists tried to escape three-mile tailbacks by driving the wrong way along one of Suffolk 's busiest roads yesterday after it was blocked by grain . |