Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] them [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 2 | My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study . |
| 3 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 4 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |
| 5 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 6 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 7 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 8 | Does presenting them in this way , grouped in the separate chapters , aid discourse type identification ? |