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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I said , anyhow , you do n't attract me that way in the least .
2	Yeah , no I 'm putting them that way on top of each other .
3	This puts them half way between a drug and a health food .
4	There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden
5	You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past .
6	I wished you 'd know , you could have took them Milky Way for
7	turns round to you half way through the job and says by the way you must do this .
8	" Have you any way of finding out ? "
9	In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury .
10	So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top .
11	That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers .
12	‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration .
13	‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy .
14	Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ .
15	I caught up with him half way to the gates .
16	Yes she licked him half way through a bad one .
17	Okay , so it cost a lot to get him half way across the world , but money does n't mean much if you ca n't use it wisely . ’
18	So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her .
19	She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem .
20	There was a desultory air to the whole performance , and I knew that he was conscious of his mediocre first round , which had put him some way down the field .
21	Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence .
22	I was n't proposing to do it that way for anyone 's work but my own !
23	See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years .
24	It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’
25	He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown .
26	A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment .
27	But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time .
28	But I did n't see it that way at all — and I was very disappointed about the whole affair .
29	In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time .
30	I do n't see it that way at all but if they 're right er I 'd defend your invitation and my acceptance by quoting the old idiom , better the devil you know .