Example sentences of "it had [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 It 's a pity it had to happen that way .
2 Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine .
3 It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets .
4 But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late .
5 But when Sweden 's shipbuilding industry slid into decline , it had to seek other ways of long term survival .
6 He wished it had happened that way .
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