Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 2 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 3 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 4 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 5 | Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner . |
| 6 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 7 | However , we climbed up a little way , just to get off the road . |
| 8 | Funny how it turned out ’ , meaning that it turned out the other way . |
| 9 | I rejoined the lane , and walked back a little way towards Navan . |
| 10 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 11 | The fourth started out the same way , then it stretched and lifted an octave . |
| 12 | ‘ Drink went down the wrong way . ’ |
| 13 | Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way . |
| 14 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 15 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |
| 16 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 17 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 18 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 19 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 20 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 21 | She looked back the other way . |
| 22 | The kitchen windows looked out the wrong way anyhow . |
| 23 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 24 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 25 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 26 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 27 | Of course such a supper , minus the wine , she might have eaten on any of the evenings ( and they now stretched back a long way ) when she found herself alone . |
| 28 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
| 29 | If we can get man set up the same way we 'll have a real world-beater on our hands . ’ |