Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would never have guessed from the way the Parsons talked that they were childless . |
| 2 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
| 3 | If she had n't come into the family … his family , would Matthew have turned out the way he was now , or would he have grown into a fine young man with a greater sense of responsibility towards his sister ? |
| 4 | Whatever the anti-nuclear movement might have said about the way the result was achieved , the CEGB had got the outcome it wanted . |
| 5 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
| 7 | Fribble was not really very much of a loss to this expedition , because he would only have got in the way , falling asleep at important meetings ( Lugh liked meetings ) , and eating all of their supplies . |
| 8 | Now , though , having to live again in a world where ideals were something to be discussed by intellectuals and certain priests , but never applied , as they would have got in the way of Horemheb 's programme of reform , Huy found his feelings dulled . |
| 9 | She still liked to type , so they would have got in the way of that , anyhow . |
| 10 | Here again , everyday language may have contributed to the way the children understood the question , since we have many expressions which represent vision as an active process : |
| 11 | I should have known from the way he could n't finish off this simple word that , a few days later , they would part . |
| 12 | What it may have sacrificed along the way is the user 's ability to create new sounds from scratch , though you can still edit existing ones . |
| 13 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |