Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 9 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
| 10 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 17 | For those intending to go the whole way and get their desktop publishing typeset the question of fonts and matching width tables really does cause problems . |
| 18 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
| 19 | Is he supposed to go the opposite way ? |
| 20 | WHITE KNUCKLES RIDES THE AMERICAN WAY |
| 21 | Any other bird would have flown the other way . |
| 22 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 23 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 24 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 25 | and all my beautifully arranged slides all arranged the right way up and all in the right order all tipped all over the floor . |
| 26 | It will require extensive amendment to the Bill , but given the Committee 's progress in considering part I , and given the positive way in which Opposition Members have put their case , I am happy to undertake to table amendments on Report to keep the option open to establish a funding council for further education . ’ |
| 27 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 28 | Llangollen Railway staff at work re-railing the breakdown crane and repairing the Permanent Way following the derailment at Glyndyfrdwy . |
| 29 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 30 | Mr Redwood said : ‘ The M4 and the Great Western Railway that carries Welsh goods to the English market and beyond also bring English voices and influences the other way . |