Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you intend to come this way regularly wear more sensible shoes , ’ he added curtly . |
| 2 | However , the signals can also be used to show how much you want to go that way , the harder one presses the stronger the signal and the more rapid the output to the computer . |
| 3 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 4 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 5 | If you know that a slightly longer sweater will make you look slimmer and you want to look that way , it is up to you to examine the diagram before you knit and work accordingly . |
| 6 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 7 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 8 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 9 | You want to be slim and you want to stay that way . |
| 10 | ‘ We may not all have been through the war together , ’ he told me , ‘ but we 're all Conservative MPs and want to stay that way . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not going to tell how many women I 've slept with because I 'm happily married and want to stay that way . |
| 12 | In our opinion this is the main gap in the orthodox account , and one we hope to go some way towards rectifying . |
| 13 | It goes without saying , one hopes , that one never , never gives way to one 's own inclinations if they happen to run this way . |
| 14 | Accountants seem to live that way and so do managers who have a grounding in disciplines such as engineering , economics or the natural sciences . |
| 15 | Cos you 're on strike when we come to nursery and you like to feel that way . |
| 16 | If you intend to stay that way I suggest you stop talking and do as you 're told , ’ he added succinctly . |
| 17 | I aim to stay that way . |
| 18 | We need help to go some way towards knowing ourselves and in turn to be able to understand and help others . |
| 19 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 20 | Erm we 've had enough discussion , we now need to go that way . |
| 21 | We know that in these cases we often do face a real choice of evils and we have to find some way of deciding which of these evils is the worst . |
| 22 | This is the strategy employed by strangers who are fearful of the cat 's claws and have to find some way of picking it up without being attacked . |
| 23 | Clearly we have to find some way of using these data without assuming that rats , for example , are just very small people . |
| 24 | Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems . |
| 25 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 26 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 27 | And having done that , you then need some people , in fact , so you do need the two types of people and if you are the team leader , you have to find some way of getting them to work together . |
| 28 | While celebrating the pleasures of sex , we need to explore those ways in which sex can be problematic . |
| 29 | And you certainly need to play that way to score : although the ball sticks to your player 's foot , it 's very difficult to dribble right through the defence ( unless your name 's Roy Hattersley , of course ! and then is a canoe you need to paddle your way through those defence players ) . |
| 30 | For myself I have to reject this way of contemplating the Church because of its individualistic bias . |