Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 31 | I confess that I felt that way at the time : the track was , despite the massive pile-up , clear . |
| 32 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 33 | ‘ If I knew another way of effecting this exorcism , as you 've aptly called it , do you think I 'd touch you ? ’ |
| 34 | I looked this way and that — the faces , the shoulders , the hands . |
| 35 | So some mornings I go one way , and some mornings the other . |
| 36 | Now I ca n't remember , if I go one way I 'm gon na finish back up in |
| 37 | you know what I 've just got , erm , if I go this way , cos I bet you Sarah 's up at erm fucking window looking for the car going by |
| 38 | I go this way . |
| 39 | ‘ How can I go one way when he 's going the other ? |
| 40 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 41 | As I went one way she must have gone the other . |
| 42 | As I went one way , and he another , I heard him say cheerfully to the gentlemen , ‘ Mason 's already left . |
| 43 | ‘ Just make sure I stay that way , ’ said Amiss . |
| 44 | Yeah , but I do any way . |
| 45 | Why should n't I pose that way if it pleases him ? ’ |
| 46 | I think this way . |
| 47 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 48 | that 's what I think any way mm |
| 49 | It did n't matter if they were town councillors or what , if these policemen said not this way , this way and they said no I live this way , they got a clip in the ear as quick as anything . |
| 50 | I liked that way you 'd had your car , I tell him he done you down ! |
| 51 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 52 | Well , I prefer this way . |
| 53 | Then I can deliver the finished uniform when I come this way again … perhaps in a week or so ? ’ |
| 54 | I 'm not qualified to judge whether the grief his mother felt on the death of his elder brother had an adverse effect on Mr Barrie 's emotional development , nor do I care one way or the other . |
| 55 | And start the 21st Century with a substantial cash sum , which is yours to spend any way you wish — on improvements to your home , a new car , a special holiday . |
| 56 | mind you I have er , I have that way inclined you know , I do take too many risks I suppose really . |
| 57 | I stayed that way , and although age took over again , I still remained faster than my 1972 debut . |
| 58 | She will , she 's gon na be big Kelly , and she goes , she goes half way up and run down , back then |
| 59 | Do you know why you got that way ? |
| 60 | Are you finishing that you got half way down that like this erm I 'll |