Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] the [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 | 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 ? |
| 4 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 11 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 12 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
| 13 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 14 | Or bits that have gone down the wrong way ? |
| 15 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 16 | Some boys if I 'm to be honest , but we have n't yet worked out the right way of gong about it . |
| 17 | Mr Major has worked out the best way to do this is to read out lists . |