Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] that way " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I 'd already gone that way twice .
3 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definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link .
4 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 .
5 It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese !
6 But things had not gone that way .
7 Er this is , I mean I 've just got that way .
8 It had just happened that way .
9 You 've always felt that way .
10 It had n't worked that way .
11 Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way .
12 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 .
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