Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might be the nicest person , but prison has made me that way . |
| 2 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 3 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 5 | Sarah has tried it both ways . |
| 6 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 7 | Mind you , that could have been because he was happy he 'd got his own way . |
| 8 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 9 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 10 | She knew this hedge well , having jumped it both ways innumerable times . |
| 11 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 12 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |
| 13 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 14 | The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water . |
| 15 | I wished I 'd known he were going , he could have swapped them Milky Ways for me ! |
| 16 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
| 17 | I thought the maid must have left it that way . |
| 18 | One who came out into the open after having lost his political way somewhat was former premier Bazargan . |
| 19 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 20 | But , equally , I was ashamed not to have made my own way when I came back to London . |
| 21 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 22 | Sort of , how do you feel about du du du du du du du y'know sort of yes definitely to no not all or y'know kind of does n't bother me to very angry or something like that but given that you 've done it this way , I think it works reasonably well . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's only hard because between us we 've made it that way , ’ he murmured softly . |
| 24 | And in the evening , after the wake , when the last guests had made their respectful way home , Jean mustered the courage to do what had to be done . |
| 25 | So she had made her fear-filled way home to spend another night in the cellar , her moods alternating between terror and self-pity , until the high , sweet sound of the all clear brought relief and anger . |
| 26 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 27 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 28 | Not if you 've turned it that way cos then you wo n't be able |
| 29 | We 've got one any way so we could n't have it , but they 're , they 're gon na have it put down . |
| 30 | We 've got them Milky Ways to take back yet . |