Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you think of reasons in others which account for the way you react as you do ? |
| 2 | A big woman , bigger than her husband , nothing cowed or mean about the way she stood . |
| 3 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 4 | Law Society rules provide for the way client money held by a solicitor should be accounted for , and the rules currently require solicitors to submit an annual accountant 's report . |
| 5 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 6 | Nor did she think he could ever feel anything but shame for the way he treated them ; if he was now ready to pretend otherwise , it would only be that he saw some advantage in it . |
| 7 | If the foundations of social science shift in the way Wilson envisaged , then Breuer 's argument would have to be reformulated . |
| 8 | This makes the counselling task even more difficult to interpret , but even within this complicated network of family systems , aspects of the wider , extended family unit will still be evident , perhaps comprising a number of separate systems which interact upon the way that the provision of care for older relatives is organized . |
| 9 | With the current state of play , what you want in the way of networking may not be easy or cheap but it is almost certainly possible . |
| 10 | Go to a crack house , Nick , and you can buy anything you want in the way of human flesh . |
| 11 | However when you come to pin it down , you find that it is not all that easy to find bits which feature exactly what you want in the way and at the length you want them . |
| 12 | Collate in the way described in Instructor 2 the general pattern of the responses and use these for.discussion purposes . |
| 13 | Unveiling details of the £1.7m deal , Ed WAllis , PowerGen 's chief executive , candidly said he would expect some say in the way the weather was presented . |
| 14 | You do n't mind if I sleep on the way back , do you ? ’ |
| 15 | We need to look beyond the social position readers already occupy to the ways in which reading as an activity is itself structured in different contexts . |
| 16 | You choose what to do with your life and how to react to the joys and sorrows you encounter on the way . |
| 17 | say by the way Jim you could have fixed that boiler take everyone off the pipes |
| 18 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 19 | The precise meaning of this formulation is unclear — does it mean ‘ lose self-control and kill ’ , or ‘ lose self-control and kill in the way D did ’ — but it seems to derive from the notion that there are degrees of loss of self-control . |
| 20 | When we are considering the impact of urbanization , we focus upon the way in which changes in the family and economy are affected by physical distance and spatial separation , the increasing need to travel to work , and perhaps the substitution of primary social relationships in a relatively stable territorially-based community such as a village by more secondary , more impersonal and fluctuating social relationships — which may , under certain circumstances , cause the members of the nuclear family to become more dependent upon each other . |
| 21 | You should , though , make it clear at all times that you object to the way that you have been treated . |
| 22 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 23 | If you listen to the way the voice comes in in relation to where the chords are , you 'll see that the vocal fits exactly in the holes where the guitar is n't playing . |
| 24 | Listen to the way he sings the phase ‘ Footloose And Fancy Free ’ , and the way he draws out that final ‘ eeeeee … ’ |
| 25 | The seasoned rockers and cabaret bores at the local pub would appreciate the fact they have travelled up and down the country , playing every decrepit club and hovel on the way . |
| 26 | A further 2.5 million die on the way to the slaughterhouse from shock , suffocation and injury . |
| 27 | it 's fifteen minutes stop on the way back |
| 28 | Yeah , well I do , believe me , I feel very s Mom , I gag on the way t |
| 29 | The studies by Evans ( 1979 ) on Brazil , Gillespie ( 1984 ) on Egypt and Ihonvbere and Shaw ( 1988 ) on Nigeria , all focus on the ways in which transnational triple alliances operate in the developing countries . |
| 30 | The precise course of such relations and the detailed moral requirements they generate depend on the way individuals choose to develop them and the different normative implications with which they deliberately endow the relations . |