Example sentences of "[pers pn] the way " in BNC.
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1 | Could you please tell me the way to Leicester square , I said , speaking softly , in my best voice and with my toothiest smile . |
2 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
3 | The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went . |
4 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
5 | Could you show me the way out ? ’ |
6 | I was wondering , since you 're here , if you would be kind enough to show me the way out ? |
7 | You think the things that are important to you annoy me the way the things that matter to me annoy you . |
8 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
9 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
10 | ‘ Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ’ , LD i 18 . |
11 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
12 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
13 | Why ca n't she love me the way I am ? ’ |
14 | ‘ Show me the way to go home ’ bawled the four-year-old as she flew back to Britain five months after Pittsburgh surgeons saved her life with a 16-hour liver and bowel swop . |
15 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
16 | SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME ! |
17 | I do n't know why she spoke to me , what was special about me , why she did n't ignore me the way she ignored everyone else . |
18 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
19 | ‘ I mean , if you can show me the way I will take you by car , ’ I said . |
20 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
21 | You 're no use to me the way you are . |
22 | Wemmick , Mr Jaggers ' clerk , showed me the way to Mr Pocket 's rooms . |
23 | When I arrived , the King of Blefuscu sent two guides to show me the way to the capital . |
24 | But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to . |
25 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
26 | ‘ The robin showed me the way , Ben , ’ she replied . |
27 | " Oh , Zora-djevojka , beautiful Dawn Maiden , wo n't you please show me the way to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
28 | I could not help thinking that something beside mere chance was at work here , showing me the way . |
29 | McKechnie lists specifically food , drink , sex , attractive clothing ; labour-saving machines and mechanical transport ; holidays and leisure activities ; so called ‘ high ’ culture — music , art , literature , etc. — and so called ‘ pop ’ culture — in which he includes the singing of old Tin Pan Alley songs , such as ‘ Show Me the Way to Go Home ’ , in public houses run by the big breweries . |
30 | I just wanted to know , inside my own head , that I was betraying his trust in me the way he 'd betrayed mine . |