Example sentences of "up the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 2 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 3 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 4 | round that square then back up the other way betwe up through the factories |
| 5 | Going up the other way . |
| 6 | ‘ Turn me up the right way , chief . |
| 7 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 8 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 9 | If it is at this point that Freud 's theory exceeds itself and is forced beyond the realm of the verifiable into that of speculation , this is also the point at which Such picks up the Freudian way of thinking . |
| 10 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 11 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 12 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 13 | ‘ Even though Father always manages to rub me up the wrong way . |
| 14 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 15 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 16 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |
| 17 | Trouble was , he never would listen to orders , rubbed everyone up the wrong way . |
| 18 | Instead , here she was , creeping around her own house like a burglar , trying to avoid a man who rubbed her up the wrong way . |
| 19 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |
| 20 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 21 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 22 | ‘ Well , he rubs me up the wrong way . |
| 23 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 24 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 25 | You must have touched her up the wrong way . |
| 26 | It approaches Rome , lumbering up the Appian Way , doubling its size every few minutes . |
| 27 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 28 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 29 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 30 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |