Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 2 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 3 | When I say that er the existing bonus structure er although unrelated to time , was certainly related to the man 's pay packet and it was given in the way of an advice note with each job , and a price attached to it . |
| 4 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 5 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 6 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 7 | ‘ I watched the Kempton race on SIS , and was shattered by the way Her Honour ran . |
| 8 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 9 | At length , the dilemma was resolved in the way everybody recognised as inevitable : the marriage contract was torn up . |
| 10 | which have been relevant there and the political factors during the Japanese war , the a need to form a united front , a need to moderate policy and then , over the course of nineteen forty six , forty seven , the need to move in a more radical direction , to go back to land reform and , and land reform a scale in terms of absolute egalitarianism because that was seen as the way of , of mobilizing mass peasant support , particularly amongst the poor , most quickly . |
| 11 | And that was all that was said on the way home . |
| 12 | She had got off the boat and was looking for the way out . |
| 13 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 14 | During his trial much was made of the way he had abused his position as a doctor . |
| 15 | Herbicide success was related to the way the seed-bed was prepared . |
| 16 | This difference of criterion as to the character of the conflict was reflected in the way power was handled on each side . |
| 17 | This withering criticism of the youth of the nation was reflected by the way in which all manner of novel terms — the ‘ mixed-up teenagers ’ , the ‘ wild ones ’ , the ‘ rebels without a cause ’ — entered into common usage in the 1950s , conveying the feeling that young people were somehow more radically unintelligible to older people than at any previous time in history . |
| 18 | Anandi Ramamurthy , a freelance educational gallery tutor brought in specially for this project , was commended for the way she made viewing interesting and easy to understand . |
| 19 | She felt that I was getting in the way . |
| 20 | In the early days , SCOTVEC and the unions discussed their difference of views on this issue and an agreement was reached on the way in which the validation criteria would be interpreted . |
| 21 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 22 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 23 | I felt very positive about it and that it was coming out the way we hoped it would . |
| 24 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 25 | That they were pretty overwhelming was evidenced by the way — against all his resolutions — he 'd made love to her . |
| 26 | Her aim , intended to catch him full in the face with the boiling liquid , was inhibited by the way he was holding her , but some of it splashed his cheek . |
| 27 | Further damage was caused by the way price rises were introduced , the report says . |
| 28 | Vi Gillman , spokeswoman for the National Back Pain Association , said the problem was caused by the way seats were designed and the posture of the people sitting in them . |
| 29 | The relief they felt was emphasised by the way Gustafsson 's team-mates jumped on to the court , picked him up and tossed him high in the air in celebration at the end . |
| 30 | It was in a thick blue binding and its antique look — the paper was ruled in the way Henry remembered books of his childhood being ruled — gave it the air of a family bible . |