Example sentences of "see the way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It has been very disturbing and hurtful for me to see the way things have happened , ’ Charlton said .
2 There were a lot of civilian girls there , wearing short , flared skirts and matching pants , and to see the way the men swung the girls up under their arms and even over their heads was quite an eye-opener .
3 I attended one course with about 50 porn star wannabes — nearly all of them men — and got to see the way things operate both in front of and behind the camera .
4 The software houses that have been slow to see the way the wind was blowing and have hardly started recasting their applications for Unix .
5 Mr Kitson , himself a fellow Yorkshireman and a former member of the county club , added : ‘ I was sad to see the way we lost so many fine young players , not just Neil , to other sides . ’
6 I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way .
7 And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life .
8 You do n't need a line to God now to see the way things are going .
9 It is a disappointment to him to see the way canoeing is marketed and perceived , particularly the view that people ca n't be coached after a certain level .
10 A glint of bright intelligence appeared in Cyril Causeley 's eyes as he stopped for a moment in his upward progress , and looked down at Greg : ‘ Ah , well — in this business you have to see the way the wind is blowing .
11 Health and Safety and COSHH have been very active in the year and I am delighted to see the way all of our service staff have responded to this .
12 Even though she once told me she did n't really care much for men , she said it was fun to see the way they reacted to her .
13 This process has placed enormous pressure upon our employees and it is tremendously encouraging to see the way in which staff have committed themselves to the new organisation .
14 Help me journey to the south , to see the way .
15 Seeing the way the debate was going , the health spokesmen of the Labour Party , Michael Meacher , and of the SDP , Mike Thomas , who had previously been urging me to make economies in the drugs bill , jumped overboard and joined the critics .
16 They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience .
17 Even so , as she followed the straight line of his back , seeing the way he moved smoothly and economically , the black hair carelessly swept back and curling at the nape of his neck , she felt a brief frisson of something she could not explain .
18 Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good
19 Erm it 's the other end of the scale of seeing the way in which individuals erm perceive their role erm in political developments .
20 She laughed shrilly , seeing the way his eyes had darkened in a way that made the breath lodge hard and heavy in her throat .
21 You seen the way even the guys here like Khaur and Danjit and Mijnheer — hell , all of 'em — do n't take to us towers .
22 You seen the way he does it , he just sits there
23 Tonight she 'd seen the way to get rid of him for good .
24 ‘ I 've seen the way he gives confidence to the sick , in spite of his youth .
25 " I 've seen the way she treats you , sir … like a child , " Jane blurted out .
26 Unlike that gentle man she was neither shocked nor surprised because she had seen the way Tom Reynolds silently lusted after his employer 's wife ; she knew also that Esther was no better .
27 I 've seen the way Louise looks at you , and Roger and Amy obviously approve .
28 ‘ I 'd unwittingly bought one by a rival historian and you should have seen the way she turned her nose up at it .
29 I do n't think I 'd have spotted it myself if I had n't seen the way he reacted the day we found Wolfgang Klein , when Gebrec got so upset . ’
30 ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you .
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