Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 2 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 3 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 4 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 5 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 6 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 7 | I told you the way of that . ’ |
| 8 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 9 | ‘ No one was sure where to look but Oscar showed them the way , ’ said owner Celia Curtis . |
| 10 | The landlord showed me the way to the railway station and off I went . |
| 11 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 12 | Wemmick , Mr Jaggers ' clerk , showed me the way to Mr Pocket 's rooms . |
| 13 | ‘ The robin showed me the way , Ben , ’ she replied . |
| 14 | He showed me the way . ’ |
| 15 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 16 | Back into the cottage he showed her the way and gave her so |
| 17 | Their flickering light showed her the way down the hall to where she placed another candle in an alcove and then , with matches in hand , she walked towards the living-room . |
| 18 | None , not even literary men of distinction in their own right , like E. M. Forster , Ronald Duncan and William Polmer , showed him the way or disputed his paramountcy . |
| 19 | ‘ We had found nothing until Oscar showed us the way . ’ |
| 20 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
| 21 | The police have told how the youths who had abducted James asked those who challenged them the way to Walton Hall police station . |
| 22 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 23 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 24 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 25 | ‘ In those early days , ’ says Gatfield , ‘ the A&R person is everything to a new act — they hold the purse strings and there is a very special relationship because it was the A&R person who offered them the way into a record company , which is very , very special . ’ |
| 26 | Once inside , Charlie crossed himself the way his grandfather always had when entering St Mary 's and St Michael 's in Jubilee Street . |
| 27 | I thought he the way he acted and I I thought he was er a real comedian . |
| 28 | Wendy liked him the way he was . |
| 29 | Well that 's , that 's well that 's all I can recollect in relation to why we did it the way we did . |
| 30 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |