Example sentences of "way [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 2 | It was also a way of moving up in the world . |
| 3 | Paying attention to real readers is certainly one productive way of breaking out of the view that the text alone determines audience response , but it is not without its difficulties . |
| 4 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 5 | The final way of getting on to the Council in a given year was by being an ypilachó0n or stand-in , and that may explain some instances of ‘ carpet-baggers ’ , i.e. political adventurers who offered themselves as Councillors for demes other than their home deme . |
| 6 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 7 | Another way of getting out of the recession is by increasing public expenditure . |
| 8 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 9 | This is your way of coming out of the closet as a writer . |
| 10 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 11 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |
| 12 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 13 | Our self-appointed mentor , the Old Stager , tackled him in the same vein , although with a shade more directness : ‘ Why do n't yer niver get no runs ? ’ he asked , by way of leading up to the subject . |
| 14 | By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art . |
| 15 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |