Example sentences of "went the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 2 | Sailing in a pleasant six to eight knots breeze , Peters went the right way on the first beat and managed to stay ahead throughout the race . |
| 3 | went the other way . |
| 4 | The mood swoop went the other way . |
| 5 | He says that it would cost him more money if he went the other way . |
| 6 | They all we , turned round and went the other way again ! |
| 7 | We always went the other way did n't we ? |
| 8 | Mm , they had to take it off and she went the other way then |
| 9 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 10 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 11 | If anything , we went the other way after erm how many children had Lady Macbeth , and we under-read . |
| 12 | If anything , we went the other way after erm ‘ How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth ? ’ and we under-read . |
| 13 | He could make love by the hour , but he went the whole way himself not more often than twice a week … |
| 14 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 15 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 16 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 17 | Liberal Theology went the same way , though it substituted the categories of Ritschl 's system for those of Hegel 's . |
| 18 | The two others continued till 1973 , when the closure of the Evening Citizen meant that no town outside London was supporting more than one evening paper — and London went the same way in 1980 . |
| 19 | In 1435 both Dieppe and Harfleur were taken by the French and in the next year Paris went the same way . |
| 20 | Besides these major groups , almost all the trilobites , the tentaculitids and several other brachiopod groups ( the orthids , pentamerids and stropheodontids ) went the same way . |
| 21 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 22 | ‘ He went the same way as your mother . ’ |
| 23 | Then a double take as Jack Russell went the same way for a disappointing 3 . |
| 24 | A third-round two-fisted torrent of punches got a tough James Phelan of Hull out of the way in the North-Eastern Counties finals , then Kirby 's Alan Ryder and the RAF 's Darren Rudd went the same way . |
| 25 | I have always said the people were right in what they asked ; but you went the wrong way to get it . ’ |
| 26 | We went the wrong way , I suppose . |
| 27 | I went the wrong way when I was twenty-one , and have never found the right path again . |
| 28 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 29 | We went the wrong way to work with you , and were amply punished for our mistake . ’ |
| 30 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |