Example sentences of "way [pron] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've forgotten which way I come in . |
| 2 | I start going back the way I came . |
| 3 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 4 | If ol' Desmond D knocked on my door I 'd go out of this life the way I came in : kicking and screaming . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but you ca n't see into that cove from the way I came . |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell them I want to go out the way I came in , Shih Herrick . |
| 8 | You do not even disapprove , very much , of the way I came to bed with you . |
| 9 | ‘ I know that does n't and ca n't excuse the way I came here and attempted to pass myself off as Cara , but I 've otherwise tried to keep to the truth , as far as possible . ’ |
| 10 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 11 | who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came . |
| 12 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 13 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 14 | If it 's dark , you 'll probably go the way you came — over the gardens . |
| 15 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 16 | Return the way you came ? ’ |
| 17 | Anne ‘ s quick wit made her popular and one of the women said admiringly , ‘ You can tell you come from a big family , girl , the way you come out with the wisecracks . ’ |
| 18 | Oh you have to back the ro the way you come . |
| 19 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 20 | ‘ This is n't the way we came , ’ said Tabitha . |
| 21 | Trace it to its source and it might give us a rough idea of the way we came in — which might give us a rough idea of south , for further referee . |
| 22 | ’ Start Posi setting a course that will take us on to a parallel Netline , doubling back the way we came . |
| 23 | We stand there with two choices : either we turn back the way we came — which may be safer but ai n't gon na get us far — or we go straight ahead past the police van , pretending we are lawfully about our business . |
| 24 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 25 | We trace Alfred 's life back in order to find the origin of his dishonesty , but along the way we come across many peculiar situations before we know what brought them about . |
| 26 | Once production was under way there came a great demand for the engines from the ore mines of Cornwall . |
| 27 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 28 | They showed tremendous courage in the way they came at us and it was a glorious day for Cumbria . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why not go out the front gate , the way they came in ? ’ |
| 30 | Committed evangelicals were a minority , but the movement greatly influenced the attitudes of a wider section of the ruling classes in the way they came to regard plebeian recreations . |