Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's say we agreed to go our separate ways . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So , we 're gon na see where he tried to get his wicked way with Nicola , are we ? ’ |
| 3 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 4 | Such an explosion of factionalism and utter selfishness was shocking to all who lived through it , and seemed to threaten our whole way of life . |
| 5 | Historical evidence would suggest that American and French sign languages began to go their separate ways in 1816 , when French Sign Language was imported with the French deaf teacher Clerc ; one would therefore expect a very high degree of similarity , as 1816 is very recent in glottochronological terms , and the percentage of cognate signs should be over 90 per cent . |
| 6 | That wretched thumb was in her mouth again ; it left her mouth and she watched the hand it belonged to inch its slow way across the counterpane towards his , almost as though it had nothing to do with her . |
| 7 | Without bothering to replace the bandage on her ankle , she dressed , grimacing at having to put on yesterday 's undies , and began to make her careful way downstairs . |
| 8 | There they decided to go their separate ways and were not to join forces again for another three years . |
| 9 | And in the evening , after the wake , when the last guests had made their respectful way home , Jean mustered the courage to do what had to be done . |
| 10 | So she had made her fear-filled way home to spend another night in the cellar , her moods alternating between terror and self-pity , until the high , sweet sound of the all clear brought relief and anger . |
| 11 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 12 | In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it . |
| 13 | He went on more seriously , ‘ So we agreed to follow our different ways . |
| 14 | At Skeldale House we parted to go our different ways . |
| 15 | Although Reed and Random House discussed the possibility of a publishing joint venture , Ingrid Selberg of Reed and Piet Snyman of RH decided in the end that they wanted to go their separate ways . |