Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 3 | We are Mick(19) and Steve ( 18 ) and we 're in the Forces- So let us open your eyes and show you a new way of life . |
| 4 | The above assignments also gives you a new way of accessing a sub-directory of DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY ] , named DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY.PMR ] . |
| 5 | We 've used both Danish Blue and Lurpak in our recipes to show you a few ways of bringing a flavour of the Continent to your cooking . |
| 6 | and I probably wo n't stop I 'll just tell you a different way . |
| 7 | Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest . |
| 8 | That seems to me a better way of spending Sundays — among my family . |
| 9 | ‘ Just give me a one way ticket to Gloucester before I break your fat necK ! ’ |
| 10 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 11 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 12 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 13 | Now I 've not seen this suggested , but it seems to me a fair way of doing it . |
| 14 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 15 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 16 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't mind seeing them a long way off , ’ said the worried lady nome . |
| 18 | The waiter brought two tall glasses and filled them a good way up with Courvoisier . |
| 19 | You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . |
| 20 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 21 | With an effort she turned to Jos , who had followed them a short way . |
| 22 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 23 | I 'll go with him a little way and perhaps we can talk . |
| 24 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 25 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 26 | ‘ Take him a long way from the Tree and kill him ! ’ |
| 27 | Mr. Thorpe had available to him a quicker way to secure the referral that he was seeking to the unit in Birmingham , so the process was not finally concluded in north Devon . |
| 28 | Had a car not followed her a long way along the Bayswater Road when she was coming to meet Urquhart ? |
| 29 | Molly carried her a little way towards the house and then set her down on the pavement by the front door . |
| 30 | When she 's ready , place her a little way up the slide and let her move down with your standing by the slide for reassurance . |