Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 2 | In the mountain-top refuge of Karfi , a few straggling survivors tried to keep the Minoan way of life going , but it had fallen into lifeless stereotypes . |
| 3 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 4 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 5 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 6 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 7 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 8 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 9 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 10 | ‘ How you must be wishing you 'd chosen a different way of doing things . ’ |
| 11 | As the bikes bowled down the dark lane , so the circle of the sky seemed to wheel the other way . |
| 12 | Whitelaw , concerned as ever to be the mediator , strove to find a middle way between Heseltine and those who did not want a penny extra for the cities for fear of being seen to reward rioters . |
| 13 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 14 | The luck began to run the other way and we made a bit of a fortune that six months . |
| 15 | Tug 's arms stopped and began to whirl the other way . |
| 16 | ‘ You want to tuck them in well , ’ said Miss Maynard , as Harry immediately stopped crying and she began to demonstrate the correct way of settling him into his cot . |
| 17 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 18 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 19 | Ruby , however , meant to walk the opposite way and glided proudly up Fleet Street , purple headscarf bobbing and gold hooped earrings glinting cruelly . |
| 20 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 21 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 22 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 23 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 24 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 25 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 27 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 28 | Both Evangelicals and Utilitarians wished to impose the middle-class way of life upon their thriftless fellow men , whose poverty , they believed , was in great measure attributable to improvident and ungodly habits , such as addiction to drink and raising illegitimate children . |
| 29 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 30 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |