Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , while your kitten is polishing her hunting skills by stalking your feet , you can introduce her to the civilised way to eat . |
| 2 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 3 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 4 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 5 | I did n't mean it in the cold-blooded way it seems to have turned out . ’ |
| 6 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 7 | When you reach shoulder shaping in a pattern it will generally instruct you in the time-honoured way to ‘ cast off ’ as group of stitches at the beginning of the next given number of rows . |
| 8 | I mean I believe I could love him in the other way , his way , now . |
| 9 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 10 | But they ca n't turn them round the other way ! |
| 11 | But they ca n't turn them round the other way ! |
| 12 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 13 | Let's turn it round the other way |