Example sentences of "[vb past] in the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did . |
| 2 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 3 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 4 | They made the Navigation Acts effective ; in the colonies the legislation came to be known as ‘ the Acts of Trade ’ , which expressed rather well the way that , while the Acts ' main importance to England lay in their encouragement to shipping , their main impact on the colonies came in the way they affected the pattern of trade that was developing . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were |
| 6 | He smiled and frowned in the way she loved . |
| 7 | A meeting in which you say ‘ if what you tell me happened in the way you describe then we owe you an apology ’ would seem to offer no admission of liability or guilt in situations where legal action results . |
| 8 | ‘ We knew they were worried about Chappy 's aerial ability , and it showed in the way they dealt with him . |
| 9 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |
| 10 | If you are starting from scratch , or just , decide what has to be bought and what improvised in the way of seating . |
| 11 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 12 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 13 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 14 | He was unlucky when Southall got in the way of his 28th-minute drive at point-blank range , but within seconds United were ahead . |
| 15 | A body got in the way . |
| 16 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 17 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 18 | ‘ The recession got in the way . |
| 19 | The Robson Rhodes changes got in the way . |
| 20 | It got in the way when she had tried to cry yet it allowed no room for self-pity . |
| 21 | Apart from Rowe , City were also denied by an upright , which got in the way of a volley from Tony Rogers . |
| 22 | He made a point of checking up on people who got in the way of the Path of Joseph . |
| 23 | Mellor 's office in life may have been the big attraction , but it also got in the way of a good time . |
| 24 | They got in the way . |
| 25 | It looks like Harry simply got in the way . ’ |
| 26 | Many of the 500 bodies simply got in the way . |
| 27 | The other day , I got in the way of a car and the driver had to swerve to avoid me . |
| 28 | So either Berndt had begun to kill her , and to hell with anybody else who got in the way . |
| 29 | It looked like it was all getting rather heated again down there ; then the leaves got in the way and we could n't see any more . |
| 30 | She got in the way of their passionate preoccupations . |