Example sentences of "that way [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he liked women to be gentle and soft and obedient he thought that women would like being that way since it would make him like them . |
| 2 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 3 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 4 | You can find most people that way unless , like me , they do n't register to vote . |
| 5 | I do n't feel er er either that way unless she thinks we 're very better than most . |
| 6 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 7 | I do realise , however , that there may be people who feel that way but are keeping quiet about it … |
| 8 | I mean it sounds like maybe it should be that way but we do n't spell it like we have the I A L or A L E. |
| 9 | So you get away with that way but percentages is a phrase to avoid very in a will shares |
| 10 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 11 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 12 | Er well Susan 's very much into music and erm I think she thinks she 'd like to earn her living that way but it 's a very hard way to earn a living . |
| 13 | I 'm going to it going to do it that way but you can see it the earth is round . |
| 14 | I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them . |
| 15 | So alien was it to see Mary Joe playing that way that I suspect she was injured and an android had been substituted , and wrongly programmed . |
| 16 | Xanthe 's eyes went wide again , in that way that did n't betoken innocence , but her ability to weigh a piece of intelligence against another heard before . |
| 17 | He had played his part so well throughout the day , holding her hand as they had strolled along the beach , looking into her eyes in that way that made her bones melt . |
| 18 | because it 's only by that way that if , if he 's gon na need the grommets or something in his ear then he really needs to get it sorted out this year . |
| 19 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 20 | I do n't know that I 've got any ambitions that way although you never know , do you now , what they say there 's many a good tune played on an old fiddle I thought you was going to say old women do n't , older women do n't appeal to me , but what about the one who raped me when I was thirteen ? |
| 21 | It was better that way than making him ask . |
| 22 | Better to take a long cool walk and see it that way than lose perspective in the weary hours of the night . |
| 23 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 24 | So I would prefer them to be assessed in that way than to post them off , and I 'm glad we 've got that choice … |
| 25 | It 's gon na be cheaper doing it that way than going through U V A . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd much rather get involved that way than just stand about watching . |
| 27 | I seem to be more nervous in that way than I once was . |
| 28 | he is nearer that way than us |
| 29 | coming up that way than they do the front window . |
| 30 | It actually looks bigger looking that way than it does when you 're up there looking back , I think . |