Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 2 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 3 | We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland . |
| 4 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 5 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 6 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
| 7 | I mean one way we can accommodate that is to put pressure resistant valves in , maybe and drop the pressures a bit at night . |
| 8 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 9 | Next time I passed that way I kept a look-out , and sure enough , there it was , sleeping in the same ‘ couch ’ on the skerry . |
| 10 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 11 | But to qualify for that you 've had , you 've actually got to be a councillor for six years , so I got half way there , |
| 12 | Then after I got half way along the I used to go down to that was another place where there was two more bungalows , you see , and then come out of there and go away to call on some more houses until I got to Miss the finish of the round . |
| 13 | I tried many ways of earning a few extra bob . |
| 14 | I tried many ways of joining the cords , but found that the best is to use a latch tool and catch a loop at the back of one cord and pull through a loop from the other cord . |
| 15 | coming home last night , I stopped half way |
| 16 | ‘ That 's crazy , ’ Anne said , ‘ I 'm sure I came this way … ’ |
| 17 | I came this way — it 's as long as it 's short — because of Pratesi and his sausage factory . ’ |
| 18 | I , I came this way and called on Susan , she was n't in , I ran the dog round here and er called on Susan again and she still was n't in , so that was that |
| 19 | I twisted one way and then another . |
| 20 | So I start from them and I count this way . |
| 21 | Now we get to look at these every month , and I want them to keep them to talk to them , to classes about it every month , and so this one , alright it goes back about , but it does n't matter , because what it does , I hope any way , is gives us some thoughts . |
| 22 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 23 | As I had to go back to my office after a big luncheon party , I arrived half way through the collection . |
| 24 | Finally , he declared low ; I declared both ways ; and he showed me a concealed three . |
| 25 | Whenever I want to knit bands of reversed stocking stitch now , I know two ways to do it which are much better than using the garter bar . |
| 26 | I know six ways out of here that are n't past the desk . ’ |
| 27 | Two — ’ a finger joined the thumb ‘ — I know another way through the keep that will take us out to a side-gate which , if we 're lucky , wo n't be guarded … |
| 28 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 29 | I walked some way behind Jean-Claude on the narrow path that skirted the woods and lost sight of him when my attention was diverted to a shadowy path in the trees . |
| 30 | ‘ I — I get this way when I 'm unhappy . ’ |