Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
2 | The pipe is filled in the usual way . |
3 | He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it 's brewed just the same way . |
4 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
5 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
6 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
7 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
8 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
9 | I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way . |
10 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
11 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
12 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
13 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
14 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
15 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
16 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
17 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
18 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
19 | You know she never has liked village people , and she 's always had rather a squashing way towards kids . |
20 | To a post-Renaissance intellectual , the Middle Ages had advanced only a small way beyond the sixth century Goths ; it was the Renaissance which brought greatness to architecture . |
21 | After the show , Michael Codron ordered the number to be performed exactly the same way for every performance thereafter . |
22 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
23 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
24 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
25 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
26 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
27 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
28 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
29 | Pipkin was stretched out a little way away . |
30 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |