Example sentences of "[verb] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , ’ she qualified hastily as he broke stride to look narrowly at her , ‘ I 've never travelled this way before . |
| 2 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 3 | If that is how we still feel , then we must recognise that we can only think this way because the Enemy is not threatening us . |
| 4 | Many suffer this way yet some people do n't care . |
| 5 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 6 | The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well . |
| 7 | When Leigh Fermor passed this way and was quizzed and befriended by the fair-haired girl Vasilio with the lamb slung round her neck , it was still a living community . |
| 8 | From the account of another ‘ scientist ’ who once passed this way . ’ |
| 9 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 10 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 11 | It 's an ‘ intelligent ’ harmoniser and plays this way to follow the commonest chord sequences without any programming . |
| 12 | So I am going to go this way round , right , and I 'm going to take some doughnuts . |
| 13 | All of us fated to go this way ; stumbling on in darkness , beneath the gaze of that cold , blind eye . |
| 14 | We have joined a centralised unitary state , and at some stage we shall have to ask the people , ‘ Do you want to go this way , or do you not ? ’ |
| 15 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 16 | We ca n't go back again , we 'll have to go this way . |
| 17 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 18 | No , I 'll er prefer to go this way . |
| 19 | In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way . |
| 20 | If you have ever watched a rabbit being pursued by a dog you will notice that whenever the dog gets close , the bunny begins to weave this way and that to confound Fido 's pounce . |
| 21 | It is only the inexperienced dealers , who know nothing about the stock market and who are desperate for money that can be manipulated this way . |
| 22 | We do not believe that anyone actually consciously thinks this way , but when we have helped people work through their emotions , in retrospect , that is what it actually boils down to . |
| 23 | It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally . |
| 24 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 25 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 26 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 27 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 28 | Treated this way they keep at least a month longer than unwrapped ones . |
| 29 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 30 | Small sized prey is always treated this way , but larger prey ( large in relation to the size of the owl ) may be broken up before ingestion in the same way as for diurnal raptors , with comparable levels of breakage . |