Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't have all the ingredients for the curry sauce , you could add a can of prepared curry sauce to the beef and chopped vegetables and simmer the same way . |
| 2 | Sometimes they would get together , swim at the cove , eat the Spanish way , siesta in the heat of the day , and life would be sweet and lazy and dripping with olives , vines and honey . |
| 3 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 4 | We were taught the right way to hold the tiller and mainsheet , how to pull the sail in and out and how to ‘ tack ’ — change direction by turning the front of the dinghy into the wind . |
| 5 | 17.39 ( i ) Pupils should be taught the conventional ways of forming letter shapes , lower case and capitals , through purposeful guided practice in order to foster a comfortable and legible handwriting style . |
| 6 | It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way ! |
| 7 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 8 | When calculated the same way there is no tendency for the mean risk rating for a junction to determine correlations with accident estimates , r(8)=-0.047 , nor is there any similar relationship between risk and the response bias measure B , r(8)=-0.21 . |
| 9 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 10 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 11 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 12 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
| 13 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 14 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 15 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
| 16 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
| 17 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 19 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 20 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 21 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |
| 22 | The illogicality of Black and working-class speech is a myth that has now been exploded : perhaps the illogicality of women 's speech is also mythical and should be allowed to go the same way . |
| 23 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 24 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 25 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 26 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 27 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 28 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 29 | Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next . |
| 30 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |