Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of Day Two , the sun seemed to shine on Worcestershire , but the game has turned the other way since tea . |
| 2 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 3 | Trevor of Bridgend was 59 last birthday and has learned the hard way that insurance gets harder to acquire the older one gets . |
| 4 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 5 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
| 6 | It could have turned the other way ; in case you might think this was a simple transaction — it was not . |
| 7 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 8 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 9 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 10 | The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I came to the conclusion that he must have gone the other way , along the track leading to the road . ’ |
| 12 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 13 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 14 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 15 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 16 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 17 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 18 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 19 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 20 | A man at the back of the crowd said , ‘ I was sitting in the dome car lounge when Xanthe came through , and I can tell you that no one had come the other way . |
| 21 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 23 | Mrs Davidson , of Stirling , said that so many people had contacted them that the association 's annual meeting had decided the only way to raise its profile and make a difference for patients was to set up a body covering Scotland as a whole . |
| 24 | So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short . |
| 25 | But it 's whether you 've got the right way is n't it ? |
| 26 | But , yes , I was fit-I had , after all , cycled 22,500 kilometres last year and had walked the Pennine Way the year before . |
| 27 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 28 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 29 | Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it . |
| 30 | I 've gone the wrong way round now have n't I ? |