Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , anyhow , you do n't attract me that way in the least . |
| 2 | Yeah , no I 'm putting them that way on top of each other . |
| 3 | This puts them half way between a drug and a health food . |
| 4 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 5 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 6 | I hobbled my shameful way from First Buttress North on Lundy as the sun 's last rays winked over the darkening sea ( and last orders for food were being called at the island 's only pub ) after tumbling from the very last move of the 90ft first pitch of Road Runner . |
| 7 | It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows . |
| 8 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 9 | And in coming to terms with the negative , the so-called negative , all those images become part of my dialectical way of thinking about myself . |
| 10 | I armchair travel the globe in front of December 's fires , from Greenland 's icy mountains , to India 's coral strand : exploring the unending vista of Asia 's central plains ; picking my dangerous way through steaming Amazonian jungles ; scaling South America 's towering peaks ; sailing the seven seas ; buffeting round Cape Horn . |
| 11 | This is my second Way of Life seminar , so I have missed discussion which may have taken place at earlier seminars over the definition of ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 12 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 13 | " My dishevelled appearance is due entirely to Miss Topaz Chilcott , who imagined that I was going to have my wicked way with her . |
| 14 | I do n't know just what kind of monster you imagine I am , but having my wicked way with a girl in your state of health is not precisely my style . ’ |
| 15 | When we arrived at King 's Cross I was told for the sake of reality I must find my own way to the Savoy Hotel , although the film crew would be close by in case of emergency . |
| 16 | I would stay on in Al Ain , making my own way to London in time for his return . |
| 17 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |
| 18 | I can make my own way to my digs , ’ she said with great dignity . |
| 19 | I had a lovely lunch I just thought I 'd try and get my own way for once . |
| 20 | My own way of working with this is to make players practise with the left hand only . |
| 21 | I have my own way of doing things and have gathered lots of experience down the years in various jobs at various levels . |
| 22 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 23 | I had finally hit rock-bottom , down there with the bums and dossers , unable even to pay my own way in Winston Street . |
| 24 | ‘ From now on I want to make my own way in the world , be independent . ’ |
| 25 | In 1990 I went my own way in setting-up the bike , instead of following [ Reinhold ] Roth 's way . |
| 26 | The principles on which recovery and success have been based are those which , like so many others , I first began to understand for myself when I was growing up and trying to make my own way in the world . |
| 27 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 28 | Martin Randall believes in allowing his clients off the leash for a good deal of unorganised time , which enabled me to enjoy my favourite occupation : finding my own way around a new city . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll make my own way from there . ’ |
| 30 | You only need to drop me in town , and I can make my own way from there ! ’ |