Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime . |
| 2 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 3 | We have no record of Gillray defending himself in this way against charges of inconsistency , but an example can be given of another public figure of those times . |
| 4 | The Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , said it was regrettable that the judge should have expressed himself in this way . |
| 5 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never seen you along this way before , ’ she said . |
| 7 | We all need to be told we look good , so try to educate your family to support you in this way . |
| 8 | If danger threatens powerful muscles can snap the valves tightly shut , and once a bivalve has closed itself in this way it can be very difficult to force it open — it has ‘ clammed ’ up . |
| 9 | By making the beam double back on itself in this way , Philips achieves an effective throw of twice the length of the tube . |
| 10 | It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk . |
| 11 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 12 | There are no words in any human language that can adequately describe the experience of ‘ seeing ’ something in this way — precisely because human beings do not have a holographic sense and so have never required the words to describe it nor the intellectual ability to be able to imagine it . |
| 13 | Lord for instance and er there used to be one from this way , Portmadoc somewhere , the place was the place was called . |
| 14 | Certain institutions carried the same message : lineage welfare payments , for instance , and the solemnities of threatening vengeance and exacting a settlement , were adat ( customary ) , the way we have always done things , living reminders of a time when ‘ we did everything in this way ’ . |
| 15 | It does n't mean that you will do everything in this way — you will have your own ideas and so will your management . |
| 16 | I wo n't let you hustle me in this way . |
| 17 | I remember a story from my student days which has stuck with me in this way ever since . |
| 18 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
| 19 | I wo n't allow you to manipulate me in this way . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ To treat them in this way is disgraceful . ’ |
| 21 | The quiet but bitter resignation of the vast majority was expressed to Yakovlev by one of them in this way : ‘ A peasant is a sheep , and whoever wants his wool fleeces him . |
| 22 | Makarenko describes them in this way : |
| 23 | The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation . |
| 24 | When you have got the idea of how to tighten them in this way , you can do the exercise anywhere . |
| 25 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 26 | These three questions clearly overlap , but can be treated as conceptually separate , and it is helpful to disentangle them in this way at least initially . |
| 27 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 28 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 29 | Does presenting them in this way , grouped in the separate chapters , aid discourse type identification ? |
| 30 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |