Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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1 | You go to prison for something you 've done wrong , that 's your punishment , but they do n't need to humiliate you in the way they do . |
2 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
3 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
4 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
5 | And sir , both of you , both you sir , Mr and you sir , Mr , er I would like to thank you for the way in the way you have conducted this enquiry . |
6 | At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year . |
7 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
8 | I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’ |
9 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
10 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
11 | I am certain they do n't intend to damage her in the way they are . |
12 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
13 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
14 | After a long few seconds Karelius said , ‘ I can see it 's no use trying to convince you of the way I feel . |
15 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
16 | Erm so when you sort of dig the ground up you have to chuck them out the way . |