Example sentences of "[vb past] of the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were pro-reform but disapproved of the way the reforms were currently being implemented . |
| 2 | In their publicity for the film , Warner Bros boasted of the way in which the story had grown out of an actual incident and of Judge Musmanno 's involvement in the subsequent litigation , and also of how ex-miners had been brought in to ensure authentic mining scenes . |
| 3 | He thought of his vantage-point and the view through the scope ; he thought of the way the cross-hairs quartered the scene , seeming to draw a victim on to the crux , dead-centre . |
| 4 | She thought of the way he exuded confidence and command , how he 'd earned instant respect in Florian 's , the way people in the bar had respectfully treated him … |
| 5 | She thought of the way Guy had left her just now without a word of reassurance or explanation . |
| 6 | Rage welled up in her as she thought of the way he had come to get her in London , so cool , so confident , so very self-assured . |
| 7 | She knew of the way white-hot irons were stamped on every slave , but the sight of the scar brought a prickle of real fear . |
| 8 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 9 | Freud wrote of the way in which fantasies or desires , often seen as evil or dangerous , could come to dominate a person 's life . |