Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [art] [det] way " in BNC.

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1 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
2 We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service .
3 Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort .
4 who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came .
5 And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way .
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