Example sentences of "[vb past] the only way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 2 | You probably wo n't be surprised to learn then , that those past masters of glam-drag dressing-up , Marc Bolan and Adam Ant , are two of Justin 's heroes , whom he says came from ‘ an underground scene but realised the only way to put their music across , to really entertain people , is to get right out there in the main arena . ’ |
| 3 | The canoe of Edwards and Mangnall — 200 miles to the west of the Commander — found the only way to escape the playful attentions of porpoises was to stop paddling . |
| 4 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 6 | This exhibition had received little attention in the press , though l'Autorité and Paris Journal had referred to it as an ‘ exhibition of Fauves and Cubists ’ no doubt through a confusion of terms , but also partly because this seemed the only way of describing the manifold tendencies represented , which were as divergent as at Brussels . |
| 7 | Maybe he figured the only way to get her off his back was to confess . |
| 8 | SAVE therefore decided the only way forward was to establish a new independent trust to take on the task of urgent major repairs . |
| 9 | Magdy Yacoub was summoned , and decided the only way to save the man would be to boost his heart with part of a cardiac support system that Yacoub borrowed at an international congress last October . |
| 10 | ‘ I decided the only way to come back was with a fresh new look , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Thus while the new generation of ‘ modern ’ biologists was stressing the importance of pure morphology , governments were becoming interested in field studies because these offered the only way of monitoring the increasingly obvious changes in natural populations . |
| 12 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 13 | He says there should be more work done by local government providing a network of cycle routes — but we felt the only way to make progress on this paritcular section was to do it ourselves . |
| 14 | The princess said children often felt the only way out was ‘ to become invisible ’ and leave . |
| 15 | ‘ So I knew the only way to get you running was to start moving . ’ |
| 16 | We knew the only way we could get in and take up our positions on the roof was by arriving early . |
| 17 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 18 | If I was a man and I thought the only way to get my jollies was by coughing up for a woman 's veal in a sorrel coulis , I would be suicidal . |
| 19 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 20 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 21 | ‘ He took the only way out he thought was best . ’ |
| 22 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 23 | Refusing to condemn the bombing , Mr Adams yesterday said the only way to end the violence was for everyone to be involved in the talks process . |
| 24 | Deputy editor Matthew Symonds said the only way the move could be economic was if one of The Times 's rivals was forced out of business . |
| 25 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |