Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she just stepped onto the road after looking both ways . |
| 2 | I was very aware of the responsibility that rested on my shoulders — after travelling half way round the world , would the knitters enjoy my lectures and workshops ? |
| 3 | They do not understand their reasons for living this way . |
| 4 | Thus one of the most vital questions that a manager can ask concerning behaviour is : ‘ What is the reward ( or payoff ) for acting that way ? ’ |
| 5 | By asking : ‘ What is the subordinate 's reward ( or payoff ) for acting that way ? ’ you can begin to pin down some possible factors behind the behaviour . |
| 6 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 7 | The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well . |
| 8 | yes , but I was gon na say er , he would n't of come any way in the fog |
| 9 | But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short-term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long-term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . |
| 10 | Then as they emerged into a street she looked down at the child , and nodding backwards , she said , ‘ It saves ten minutes of pushing that way . ’ |
| 11 | These things have a habit of snowballing one way and another . ’ |
| 12 | Considerable effort will be directed towards investigating alternative ways in which agents in financial markets form their expectations . |
| 13 | Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way . |
| 14 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 15 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 16 | This particular form is symmetric about the case E1 = E0 , at which the switch has an even chance of going either way . |
| 17 | to sort of see some way around it , but I mean it 's a , it 's a problem of the scheduling both by the theatres |
| 18 | I do n't know , I 'm not very sort of convinced one way nor the other |
| 19 | My dad he he usually goes to a pub er it is on I think it 's Road but instead of coming this way he goes all the way into town up the other end , you know past the Hotel , he lives at |
| 20 | The difficulty of undermining traditional ways and beliefs has been noted again and again , in the continuing hold of religion in Smolensk , the educational crisis in Kursk , the peculiar problems in Makarenko 's colony . |
| 21 | Indeed , both for men and women , the great process of uprooting was inevitably a process of undermining ancient ways and learning new ways . |
| 22 | Conduct money must be sufficient to cover cost of travelling each way and , in addition , a sum specified currently as £15.00 for a police officer or £21.50 for anyone else for compensation for loss of time , but there is provision for increase and updating ; the amounts are specified in the costs appendices . |
| 23 | The exact title though is only important in one respect , namely in convincing staff of the desirability of having some way of judging and commenting upon performance and gaining their acceptance and co-operation . |
| 24 | I know that you tend to be inundated with questionnaires but hope you will agree that this is a vital area of concern and will help us find ways of reaching new ways of assisting young people in and into sport . |
| 25 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 26 | In principle , any discipline can be called on in this way , as an intellectual resource which has the power of showing hidden ways of perceiving the object in question . |
| 27 | Though Churchill frequently spoke ( from 1944 ) in alarming terms of Soviet ambition and conduct , neither his government nor its Labour successor despaired immediately of finding some way to co-exist with the USSR — even when they were confronted by its increasingly heavy-handed and ruthless behaviour in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | If you are close , you can appreciate the other 's character without having to go through the anxiety of behaving that way yourself . |
| 29 | The process of trying new ways of eating , new recipes , still enjoying your favourite foods , and feeling more trim and healthy every day , should also be a reward in itself . |
| 30 | There are many advantages of working this way , two of which are that the performance technique required is minimal , well within the abilities of the class to achieve a satisfactory result from their point of view , and that it allows the class and its individual members to control the emotional input . |