Example sentences of "way [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 2 | No , but she said like , she said it could come today cos she says they deliver I says is there no way I said you can give me a number I said that I could get in contact , she said no , she said were 're not allowed to do that |
| 3 | ‘ I asked for it , ’ Flavia said , ‘ the teasing and all , after the way I pretended I could get you a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 5 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 6 | The way I think it should go , is that there should be women priests . |
| 7 | I said if nobody like the way I talk they can lump it and you said , Aye they can . |
| 8 | But erm unless he alters his way you know I can see it coming off . |
| 9 | It 's the only way you feel you can survive as a child . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously what you say to another person and the way you say it will have an effect on what they say back as a response . |
| 11 | And the way she talks you 'd think she 's destitute would n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ Whichever way she goes we can go more quickly because we can stay on the ride and she dare not . |
| 13 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 15 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked . |
| 17 | He said , well let's put it this way he said I can get into a Ford and start it without breaking any windows |
| 18 | That way he reckoned he would hear anyone descending the iron stairs . |
| 19 | They extended a half inch beyond my toes but the way he spoke you 'd think I was John A. ‘ Snowshoe ’ Thomson . |