Example sentences of "[vb base] them [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Get them round the wrong way , of course , and you spend ten thousand pounds worth of preparation on a ten p problem . |
| 3 | Professor Akio Sasaki and Assistant Professor Shigeo Fujita claim that their ‘ multifunctional optical element device ’ can amplify light signals , store them in the same way as a conventional computer stores electric signals , and channel the flow of rays in one direction by absorbing random reflected light . |
| 4 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 5 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
| 6 | Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way . |
| 7 | However if you are prone to sore feet , treat them in the old-fashioned way by rubbing the soles and heels with surgical spirit to harden the skin . |