Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time .
2 Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books .
3 Not that I cared much for the way he kept them .
4 The Act did tend to homogeneity , to the exploitation of meritocratic notions in pursuit of pragmatic ends , but it created little in the way of innovation or social levelling .
5 I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones .
6 Abie peered fixedly at the way ahead .
7 Our car conked out on the way to school .
8 The second flashed the first , and they both jerked out of the way .
9 But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit .
10 Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows .
11 Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them .
12 Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove .
13 Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear .
14 He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England .
15 When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law .
16 Other teeth moved freely in a way that they had never moved before .
17 In the late eighteenth century treatises against masturbation referred specifically to the way in which it undermined a man 's ability to work .
18 Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way .
19 Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out .
20 As a result , the country received little in the way of bilateral aid from these countries and various forms of trade sanction were imposed .
21 This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi .
22 ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in .
23 Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived .
24 ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it !
25 She stumbled backwards and I darted out of the way as she fell over .
26 It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange .
27 Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed .
28 However , these did not make much difference as the largest families tended to be the poorest families who paid little in the way of direct tax .
29 She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door .
30 Mr Vaz said the report ‘ very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation . ’
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