Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | So you 're really clobbering them both ways , are n't you ? |
2 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
3 | It was the end of the afternoon , an east wind was chivvying its self-important way across the North Sea , the sun was losing its heat , and most people had gone home . |
4 | Faddiness is often a manipulative process of children gaining their own way . |
5 | There is something quite stunning about ahead of shiny , glossy hair but as we all know , keeping it that way can sometimes prove difficult . |
6 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
7 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
8 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
9 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
10 | There is without a shadow of doubt some very nasty gossip about me now sludging its filthy way through the intestines of the society I know and have come to despise . |
11 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
12 | I armchair travel the globe in front of December 's fires , from Greenland 's icy mountains , to India 's coral strand : exploring the unending vista of Asia 's central plains ; picking my dangerous way through steaming Amazonian jungles ; scaling South America 's towering peaks ; sailing the seven seas ; buffeting round Cape Horn . |
13 | diplomatic rather than strident and wanting her own way and doing it in a very obvious way . |
14 | A recorded voice was booming out from behind the pay-booth where some Americans were pushing their jerky way through . |
15 | Each branch was developing its own way of coping with the environment , and progress in one direction could not be evaluated by comparison with any other . |
16 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
17 | I have behaved like a spoilt child wanting its own way , she said to herself . |
18 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
19 | Whoa , old girl , ’ soothed Ted , when he saw that even with all his weight pulling on the halter , there was no hope of saving her that way . |
20 | ‘ I see nothing humorous in suggesting my query was directed at the waiter , and nothing funny in your eyeing him that way as if the implication were a consideration . |
21 | Hoomey shot up round Bones 's ears and Bones , remembering his old ways , shook him back into the saddle and let out some contented snorts . |
22 | I 'm going my own way now . ’ |
23 | I was paying my own way , sleeping on the beach at night , leaving my backpack in a kibbutz during the day , and the research went pretty well . |
24 | Even the screeching rasp of a police hover forcing its slow way upstream can scarcely cut the din . |
25 | They talked for two hours before going their separate ways , he up the Amazon and she bound for Canada . |
26 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |
27 | For most snails , courtship is a fairly straightforward affair ; the two snails meet and , being hermaphrodites ( each individual having male and female parts ) , exchange both eggs and sperm , before going their separate ways . |
28 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
29 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
30 | the there are choice , either submission or going their own way , the pride of the world |