Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has not happened this way . |
| 2 | Human society has always operated this way . |
| 3 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 4 | Mr. Galbraith : The Minister has certainly gone some way towards clarifying the position , and it would not be proper for me to be mean-spirited . |
| 5 | I 'd only got half way and I heard the row going on , so I cut across and met them . |
| 6 | I 'd already gone that way twice . |
| 7 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |
| 8 | They 'd definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link . |
| 9 | Millie kept her tongue quiet for some time , until she felt forced to say , ‘ I would have never known this way home . ’ |
| 10 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 11 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 12 | To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised . |
| 13 | But things had not gone that way . |
| 14 | Er this is , I mean I 've just got that way . |
| 15 | It had just happened that way . |
| 16 | You 've always felt that way . |
| 17 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 18 | But , we 've still got some way to go towards collecting together all of the other things around the place , so that this extra committee can have a look at it and decide whether these forms are relevant , necessary , should be controlled or not . |
| 19 | It had n't worked that way . |
| 20 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 21 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 22 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 23 | I 've never felt this way before . |
| 24 | Because , ’ she qualified hastily as he broke stride to look narrowly at her , ‘ I 've never travelled this way before . |
| 25 | She had never felt this way before , and did n't know how to cope with it . |
| 26 | Had never learned such ways . |
| 27 | Indirectly , we have already explored this way of thinking in our consideration of the proposal that pragmatics is " meaning minus semantics " , and the idea that some distinction from sociolinguistics is necessary was responsible for some of the dissatisfaction with a number of the definitions above . |
| 28 | We should note that we have already moved some way from the Greek conception of democracy as government by the people themselves . |
| 29 | she 's just looked this way now . |
| 30 | Cunningham and Davis ( 1985 ) have succinctly listed several ways of doing this : |