Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 2 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things . |
| 4 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 5 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 6 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 8 | Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way . |
| 9 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |
| 10 | After dilution , the determination of ammonia is carried out in the normal way . |
| 11 | New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) . |
| 12 | Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way . |
| 13 | Also , enforcement is carried out in the same way by the weights and measures authorities , sections 27–33 . |
| 14 | Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests . |
| 15 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 16 | On behalf of all her fans , I would like to wish her the best of luck in 1992 and hope that she will carry on in the dedicated way she has in the past year or so . |
| 17 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 18 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 19 | Larger units of measurements in the metric system , are built up in the same way as the number system , based again on tens and tenths . |
| 20 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |
| 21 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 22 | In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world . |
| 23 | Probably the notorious case of some rail coaches being moved by road came about in the same way . |
| 24 | Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way . |
| 25 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 26 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 27 | unc Now finish off in the usual way . |
| 28 | Put the line ferret through the system and the loose ferret may well be located and subsequently dug out in the same way as a rabbit . |
| 29 | And after closing the door , she still stood and repeated to herself , ‘ Land up in the same way as you did . ’ |
| 30 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |