Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 2 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 3 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 4 | Annabel wished that there had been some way young Eve could have been sent to university too . |
| 5 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |