Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others watched him cross the road and make his unsteady way down York Street . |
| 2 | splits up and goes its separate ways we 're not getting ten gallons a minute through that pipe or through that or |
| 3 | In comers landed clumsily and made their tricky way nest ward ; outgoers waddled to the edge of the rock and plunged sea wards . |
| 4 | It offers women , Coward argues , the fantasised pleasure ( and apotheosis of sexual desire ) of finding security in the strong arms of the hard-bitten patriarchal hero , along with the pleasure of having ‘ tamed ’ him and domesticated his wild ways by the power one enjoys over him in being a woman . |
| 5 | And it had , till he had entered her life and changed her whole way of thinking . |
| 6 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 7 | ‘ Not much I can say to that , is there ? ’ she managed bravely , wishing desperately that he would straighten up and go his merry way . |
| 8 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 9 | We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards . |
| 10 | She takes it up , the partners disengage and go their separate ways . |
| 11 | The principle behind the act is that marriage should be regarded as a partnership which is dissolved on divorce allowing both parties to have a ‘ clean break ’ and go their separate ways . |
| 12 | ‘ You have achieved your objective , Mr Wyatt , so can we have this talk you insist upon and go our separate ways ? ’ |
| 13 | Only then , in the shock of the open air at last , did we break ranks and go our separate ways . |
| 14 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 15 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 16 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 17 | I knew how she dreaded a recurrence of loneliness when the four of us eventually left The Milebrook and went our various ways . |
| 18 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |
| 19 | Of the plays , Macbeth appears to have received his greatest attention , and , in 1745 , while still in his thirties and making his literary way , he produced his ‘ Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth ’ , which begins : ‘ In order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age and the opinions of his contemporaries . ’ |
| 20 | Touched by her husband 's bringing her coffee Frau Nordern was in a good humour , dismissing her own worries about the accident as mere alarmism stoked by Bodo , and tempering her authoritarian ways by letting Paul stay in bed for an extra fifteen minutes instead of , as usual , rousing him in the manner of a sergeant in charge of a penal battalion . |
| 21 | And there , bumping and jolting its roaring way up the track towards the house was a motor car . |
| 22 | The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind . |