Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 2 | It had only sounded that way to his western ears — because the words had been Chinese ! |
| 3 | To be fair to the youth education committee , they had already gone some way in answering the questions raised . |
| 4 | But things had not gone that way . |
| 5 | It had just happened that way . |
| 6 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 7 | It had n't worked that way . |
| 8 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 9 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 10 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 11 | She had never felt this way before , and did n't know how to cope with it . |
| 12 | Had never learned such ways . |