Example sentences of "in the [adj] way [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 2 | Oh absolutely marvellous we watched the house go up brick by brick , you know , we , we used to come down here and think oh my goodness wo n't it be marvellous to be able to run some water and have a bath in the normal way you know cos we do n't , we 'd both always had electricity and baths and everything else until this happened and erm , we er , oh it was wonderful , really wonderful absolutely marvellous |
| 3 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 5 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 6 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 7 | The smugness in his voice was here too , in the studied way he licked upper and lower lips with his tongue before he spoke , and tapped the fingertips of each hand together as he judged the broken man at his feet . |
| 8 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 9 | She was still an awkward presence because she was never relaxed ; there was an unnatural quality of alertness in her posture , in the intent way she stared at you as you spoke , in her sudden jerky movements . |
| 10 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 11 | ‘ Graham Taylor was trying to get us through to the semi-finals in the best way he knows — rightly or wrongly . |
| 12 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 13 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 14 | You would not , for instance , had he had his way , have been able to go on running the provender committee in the disgraceful way you did . ’ |
| 15 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 16 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 17 | ‘ Ossie has attempted to play the game in the attractive way he has always believed in , ’ said O'Neill . |
| 18 | Professor Davis noted that the industries which expanded before 1780 did not transform themselves in the dramatic way we have come to know as an industrial revolution . |
| 19 | I did n't mean it in the cold-blooded way it seems to have turned out . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 22 | We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio . |
| 23 | Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them . |
| 24 | He expressed to Ridley his fears that , come the winter months , when payloads on the North Atlantic dropped alarmingly , the big airlines could very easily get together to squeeze Virgin out of the market-place , in the same way they had squeezed out Laker . |
| 25 | An interesting comment from the Arts representative was that ‘ it is financially impossible to train people in the same way they did 5 years ago ’ . |
| 26 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 27 | In the same way they learn the trees that are good for firewood or building , for supporting the yams or propping the bananas , those that resist white ants or make the best bee-hives , stools or grain mortars and pestles . |
| 28 | Bella married a butcher who displayed her photographs in his shop while she charmed the customers in the same way she had charmed the stars . |
| 29 | Well what you 've got to do now is think about your own house and in the same way you 've just thought about it and say what is there about my house that would attract somebody to try and break into it . |
| 30 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |