Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 4 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 5 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 13 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 16 | This will build up your aerobic fitness and train you in the right way . |
| 17 | Surely any minute she would wake up and find Marc lying beside her , his arms holding her in the loving way of barely twelve hours ago ? |
| 18 | I do not intend to give the precise wording of a regression session on these pages because some readers might try to use it in the wrong way . |
| 19 | Yeah I 'm not I 'm not disputing that , all I 'm saying is the question is , whether we 're using the monies we 're being given to fund it in the right way . |
| 20 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 21 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 22 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 23 | It may be that the first is a purse which is never empty , and the second a pot which provides a wholesome meal whenever you demand one in the right way . |
| 24 | His translators over the past two centuries might be divided into literalists , freewheeling creativists , and those — the greater number — who have attempted something in the middle way between Newmark 's " semantic " and " communicative " ; those , indeed , who have attempted to " English " him . |
| 25 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 26 | I did n't mean it in the cold-blooded way it seems to have turned out . ’ |
| 27 | He expresses it in the following way : |
| 28 | After use , you can either throw the used head away , or clean it in the usual way . |
| 29 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 30 | I think anger 's a really positive energy if you use it in the right way . |