Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know anyone else would stick up for me the way you do . ’ |
| 2 | They said , ‘ Elizabeth , you are wonderful to look after her the way you do ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , you are wonderful to cook as you do ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , what would Hywel have done without you ? ’ and ‘ Elizabeth , what a difference you have made to the house ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , Elizabeth ’ . |
| 3 | Not only , she was thinking , did n't Arnie look after her the way Guido did , but , far more alarming , there was something else he 'd never done . |
| 4 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 5 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 6 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
| 7 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 8 | He knew he would be able to work with her the way he like to , not a barnstorming nonstop battle which was the way he had to work with Gesner , but an exciting exploration of just what new heights could be achieved . |
| 9 | I was damned lucky to find her , to bump into her the way I did . ’ |
| 10 | If he started fiddling with it the way he fiddled with everything it could go off in his own face . |
| 11 | What 's wrong with us the way we are ? |
| 12 | I just wanted to know , inside my own head , that I was betraying his trust in me the way he 'd betrayed mine . |
| 13 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 14 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 15 | In the former , all of X , Y , and Z are shown — the relationships between their changes are illustrated and one could estimate from it the ways in which the various terms in the equations are bringing about the changes . |
| 16 | But scientists are impressed by the way Mr Kingdon has identified the sequence of evolutionary accidents that led to Africa 's strange mosaic of rich ecosystems ; and conservationists find in it a way to explain rarity and extinction . |
| 17 | These examples are more comprehensive too , because they put before us the ways people communicate visually as well as verbally . |
| 18 | Matthew Prescott was a nice man , even though she could not imagine ever feeling about him the way she did — had — about Cameron . |
| 19 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 20 | Nick did n't send any shivers through her the way Jack Butler had but after he 'd kissed her softly goodbye and she was walking through Portman Square , she found herself looking forward to seeing him later . |
| 21 | But she knew , morning person or not , if Fen only felt for her the way she felt for him , she would happily be up at half-past three or even earlier , just to be with him . |
| 22 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 23 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
| 24 | You 're no use to me the way you are . |
| 25 | When you talk to me the way you do ? |
| 26 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 27 | No wonder they 're touchy when you pick on them the way you do . ’ |
| 28 | How will you stop Rickey Henderson stealing bases on you the way he did against Toronto , Roger Craig , the Giants ' manager , is constantly asked . |
| 29 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 30 | I could talk to you the way I could n't talk to anyone else . |