Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed . |
| 2 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |
| 3 | Both teams were applauded for the way they kept going forward , and there was only one distasteful moment when Goodman went in far too late on Chivers and was deservedly booked . |
| 4 | Allied misgivings as to what might be the real meaning of Spanish " non-belligerence " were deepened by the way Spain appeared to be moving closer to the Axis in the autumn of 1940 . |
| 5 | This is simply natural , it 's a fact , you both know that whatever happens , even if God and the Devil were to stand in the way , you will have what you want . |
| 6 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 7 | This was long before all things that girls wear could be studied and were exhibited on the way up the escalator at Piccadilly Underground . |
| 8 | Previously we were looking at the way in which the colour order for pattern is decided by the Creation 6 program and took a pattern all the way through to the ‘ Knit a pattern ’ menu , ready to transfer directly across to the machine console . |
| 9 | Many observers were disturbed by the way in which the high standards of service and integrity associated with the BBC as a public corporation were being compromised . |
| 10 | In August 1981 , however , some detailed changes were made to the way in which this assistance would be forthcoming . |
| 11 | The team decided that improvements were needed in the way the payslip is laid out . |
| 12 | For some reason , which I can not recall , bombs were jettisoned on the way home — we landed back at base after a seven hour 30 minute flight . |
| 13 | Working womens ' organisations you get co-opted on and the , we were known for the way , the business-like way we run our meeting you know . |
| 14 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 15 | Questions were asked about the way in which Camoran , the children 's home in Kirkwall , was run . |
| 16 | We were supported by the way in which tutors worked with us . |
| 17 | Two policemen were standing across the way and when the attack began John 's girlfriend rushed to the police asking for help . |
| 18 | Yesterday relatives of Charles Prattley told a coroner they were disgusted by the way he had been treated by staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 19 | If she had any doubts that Shine On was good enough to win that afternoon , they were dispelled by the way he felt during his early-morning pipe-opener . |
| 20 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 21 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 22 | If the law were changed in the way we suggest it is at least possible that such men would prefer to seek relations with older persons which would not render them liable to prosecution . |
| 23 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 24 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 25 | When I say that er the existing bonus structure er although unrelated to time , was certainly related to the man 's pay packet and it was given in the way of an advice note with each job , and a price attached to it . |
| 26 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 27 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 28 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 29 | ‘ I watched the Kempton race on SIS , and was shattered by the way Her Honour ran . |
| 30 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |