Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But , yes , I was fit-I had , after all , cycled 22,500 kilometres last year and had walked the Pennine Way the year before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 9 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 10 | Experts say it 's good news for Rover , which could have been sold off if today 's European Court ruling had gone the other way . |
| 11 | The tramp choked a little , as if the gum he accepted and popped into his mouth had gone the wrong way . |
| 12 | Linked to the machine by electrodes , he had learned the best way to use every weapon ever invented . |
| 13 | The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat — you stayed indoors if there was trouble . |
| 14 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 15 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 16 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 17 | He had learnt the proper way of cleaning and boning Sir Dermot 's shoes and " doing " his lovely old clothes . |