Example sentences of "come the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 4 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 5 | clockwise even though it means coming the long way round |
| 6 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 7 | Coming the other way , between convoys of trucks , was a motley mixture of Soviet or Polish-built old bangers , sleek new Golfs , beaten-up Wartburgs , the occasional Toyota , brand-new Audis , or still spluttering Trabants . |
| 8 | ‘ The train which was coming the other way had all its windows broken . ’ |
| 9 | He was so frightened he would n't let the driver go across a green light in case he hit Red and the twins coming the other way . ’ |
| 10 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 11 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 12 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | The SAAF Museum had long wanted an Oxbox and an exchange was arranged , with Lockheed Ventura II 6130 ( one time AJ469 ) coming the other way . |
| 14 | And of course you meet something coming the other way wrong side of the road . |
| 15 | The road out of the village , southwards , shrinks in a quite unforeseeable manner in order to pass under the porch of a small chapel ; this could be distracting , and were something coming the other way lead perhaps to a rare collision on what is no doubt consecrated ground . |
| 16 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
| 17 | Now that was Now look at the vehicles coming the other way and there 's a car in front of the opposing lorry . |
| 18 | The one coming the other way . |
| 19 | Now what if something had been coming the other way ? |
| 20 | double white lines system , We 'll show you this one in a minute , and coming the other way you will see there 's an overtake . |
| 21 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 22 | You can overtake if it 's safe to do so and you can regain your nearside without danger or or inconvenience to other vehicles coming the other way . |
| 23 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 24 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 25 | She prayed there was nothing coming the other way . |
| 26 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
| 27 | ‘ And probably the level of civilisation is no greater than it is within the Khanate — otherwise the embassy would be coming the other way . ’ |
| 28 | Clusters with prams on pavements stopped to talk to groups coming the other way . |
| 29 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 30 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |