Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 2 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 3 | We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle . |
| 4 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 5 | In the meantime , while your kitten is polishing her hunting skills by stalking your feet , you can introduce her to the civilised way to eat . |
| 6 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 7 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 8 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 9 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 10 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 11 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 12 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 13 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 14 | Can you hold it here so it 's security keys and I have n't turned it round the other way . |
| 15 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 16 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 17 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 18 | Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way : |
| 19 | How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in . |
| 20 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 21 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 22 | As Linda Nochlin said , ‘ Not all women artists are feminists ; not all feminist artists wish to incorporate their feminist identity into their art works , and certainly , even if some of them do , none of them will do it in the same way ’ . |
| 23 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 24 | If you have answered ‘ yes ’ to three or more of them , you are probably perpetuating this self-image by looking for friends or partners who will treat you in the same way . |
| 25 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 26 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 27 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 28 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 30 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |