Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 2 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 3 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 4 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 5 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 6 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 8 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 9 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 10 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 11 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 12 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 13 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 14 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 15 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 16 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 17 | ‘ Then clearly I have n't gone about it the right way . ’ |
| 18 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 19 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 20 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 21 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 22 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |
| 23 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |
| 24 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 25 | There was no short cut : farming was an art and few men had it unless they 'd come by it the hard way . |
| 26 | Another strategy is to jam the re-uptake system open , so that dopamine flows through it the wrong way all the time , keeping the gap suffused with the neurotransmitter . |
| 27 | If that is the case , I 'll talk to him the same way . |
| 28 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |