Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 3 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 4 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 6 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 7 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 9 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 10 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 11 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 12 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 13 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 14 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 15 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 16 | I am pleased to tell you that Wimborne Publishing — the publishers of Everyday Electronics — have purchased The Modern Amateur Electronics Manual and will continue to market this product and produce bi-monthly updates for it in the way that WEKA previously did . |
| 17 | I 'm gon na call for him on the way . |
| 18 | Nobody has spoken to him in the way that you have , not for more than a year … |
| 19 | What time is Lucy coming to you by the way Terry ? |
| 20 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 21 | Old Ape ambled past him on the way to the back door for his dinner and his scraps , carrying a red plastic bucket . |
| 22 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 23 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 24 | There was an old woman on sitting opposite me on the way home and she had two big I was looking and looking These are not real . |
| 25 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 26 | It paid well enough , especially the small link from the Somerset coalfield , but as Dyos and Aldcroft point out , at their busiest the inland waterways of southern England carried only 15 per cent of total traffic and never rewarded those who invested in them in the way those of the industrial Midlands and north did . |
| 27 | But there 's no way you can get round it with the way it was recorded . ’ |
| 28 | Could something have happened to her on the way home last night ? |
| 29 | And everything that has happened to you in the way of learning . |
| 30 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |