Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess he taught me the right way , because after a couple of years , when I heard something , I knew what it was before any intellectual wheels were turning in my head . |
| 2 | He showed me the cunning way in which Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , had hinged the top of the fuselage so that a patient could be lowered into the plane on a stretcher once the second seat had been removed to give the extra length . |
| 3 | Believe me the only way I 'd ever consider |
| 4 | Rhubarb fool is a very beautiful dish — and to me the only way of making rhubarb acceptable . |
| 5 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 6 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |
| 7 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 8 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |
| 9 | It involves an act of imagination to see one 's society and culture through the eyes , as it were , of someone from a different culture , to whom the normal ways of living and acting in Western societies appear odd and to demand explanation . |
| 10 | Another well known crossover is the snake cable , where you simply cross the stitches one way , knit a few rows then cross them the other way . |
| 11 | Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round . |
| 12 | Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids . |
| 13 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 14 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 15 | You can tell them the true way things stand . ’ |
| 16 | That hand of mine wo n't go the right shape although I 've tried , I knew it would deform joints and so I put all my efforts into spreading them the opposite way , but I have n't won on that one , can you see ? |
| 17 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 18 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 19 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 20 | The old man was shouting hoarsely , and someone a long way off was answering — and running , too , for she could feel the vibration of rapid footsteps . |
| 21 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 22 | Yet a casino is exactly what many bosses , politicians and pundits believe to have been the home of Anglo-American corporate finance in the past five years or more : a den of greed and chance in which the only way to win is to fix the roulette wheel . |
| 23 | A real attempt had now to be made to change the political climate under which the Roman way of life could be accepted and economic development could prosper . |
| 24 | Observations at wavelengths to which the Milky Way is transparent have shown that the central regions are unlike other parts of the Galaxy , and that bizarre features seem to be the rule rather than the exception . |
| 25 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 26 | Its the underhand way you went about the heavy petting and damp carry-on , Douglas . |
| 27 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 28 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 29 | Health Home Cooking shows you the new way to serve food that 's light , tempting and satisfyingly nourishing . |
| 30 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |