Example sentences of "[vb past] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 2 | Bell , on the other hand , might start wanting to pretend to behave in some sort of pseudo British Council evenhanded way over published materials . |
| 3 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 4 | In competition for new investment , hotels and ferries came way behind the main business and these two potentially successful concerns were not getting the management or main board attention they deserved . |
| 5 | What 's the reality of , supposing we took two on , and supposing the number of complaints steadied , or even fell , and the target times came way down , we 're meeting everything . |
| 6 | JIM MOODIE powered hid way to a winning TT double on the Isle of Man yesterday . |
| 7 | She said the case hads been handled in a heavy handed way . |
| 8 | We climbed way up higher than the other balloons … and once above the clouds at more than seven thousand feet … |
| 9 | It was a fusion of body and soul and mind , an exhilaration that soared way beyond anything she had ever known . |
| 10 | We made the cut in 1971 , but we finished way down the field . |
| 11 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 12 | Goblins are generally small and quite odd-looking , being swarthy and bowed , with caps pulled way over their eyes and extremely large , gnarled hands . |
| 13 | Past the gap , the wind failed and dropped to nothing , the dinghy lost way and drifted towards three lighters moored abreast . |
| 14 | The tapes fell way and the linen , many-layered , was turned back . |
| 15 | Essentially , these manoeuvres are a way of managing debt to take advantage of interest rate changes , but the council went way beyond debt management into pure financial speculation . |
| 16 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 17 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 18 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 19 | The point is that when the injunctions are triggered , they serve to increase apparent levels of risk or constraint and to damage people 's ability to perceive the facts of the matter in an accurate and differentiated way . |
| 20 | The internal politics of Surrealism were complicated by rivalries and ideological disputes ; in the case of André Breton 's association with Dali , his earlier support gave way to a denunciation of the artist , who was expelled from the group . |
| 21 | The summer , which was a glorious one that year , gave way to a gusty autumn , and , as is the way with these things , after the autumn came the winter . |
| 22 | Faces turned , bodies gave way a little , and he went up to the Cross and took the crumpled sheet . |
| 23 | Mk2 first–class open vehicles , like that shown here , gave way to the Mk3 build , and glass jars of Cooper 's Oxford Marmalade to plastic portion-sized containers . |
| 24 | Residual traffic was routed via Peterborough and this closure reflected the vastly changing freight scene as vacuum-braked freights gave way to air-braked company or block trains , precluding the necessity to marshal en route . |
| 25 | Lewis gave way to Fraser , and Azharuddin brought up a great hundred , and 1,000 for the match , with an easy clip for three . |
| 26 | Fortune duly gave way to forfeit ; the cars were sold , the duck marsh was turned into a bird sanctuary and the only tigers left in Bharatpur are stuffed . |
| 27 | As the land rose , the rectangular paddy fields gave way to thin terraces that carved the valley into steps ; here and there an irrigated paddy glistened in a green crescent . |
| 28 | THE RULING body of the Conservative Party yesterday gave way to rank-and-file pressure and moved a step nearer to sanctioning official party candidates in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 30 | In the event , under heavy Foreign Office pressure which she secretly resented , Mrs Thatcher gave way completely . |