Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faddiness is often a manipulative process of children gaining their own way . |
| 2 | There is something quite stunning about ahead of shiny , glossy hair but as we all know , keeping it that way can sometimes prove difficult . |
| 3 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 8 | diplomatic rather than strident and wanting her own way and doing it in a very obvious way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have behaved like a spoilt child wanting its own way , she said to herself . |
| 11 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm going my own way now . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | the there are choice , either submission or going their own way , the pride of the world |
| 19 | Audrey Kinkead , the secretary of the Badminton Union of Ireland and an IBF and EBU council member , is delighted with the decision as there was a danger that the sport would split with the men and women going their own way . |
| 20 | One additional burden facing British self-starters paying their own way to a CPL/IR is that — uniquely among educational courses — the cost is liable to VAT which they can not recover . |
| 21 | Some will be privately funded ( i.e. paying their own way or grant aided by independent foundations ) . |
| 22 | Seven of them use wheelchairs and so staff need to raise an extra £4,000 so twelve of them can accompany the residents , who are paying their own way . |
| 23 | Strong and creative relationships between schools and within an LEA result in a richness of educational provision which could not be achieved by each school going its own way . |
| 24 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |
| 25 | The moon called to her , she thought , pulling her this way and that . |
| 26 | Fred , from Newcastle , still finds things hard , even after spending time in a ‘ halfway house ’ which let him get used to paying his own way . |
| 27 | But with his damnable purity , which they all praised after his death , Modigliani insisted on going his own way . |
| 28 | Already , even before the move , Herbert was ‘ going his own way ’ , and there had been a period of separation the previous year when Grace took the children to stay in Cape Town for six months or more . |
| 29 | The borrowed book may be a fiction taken from Isadore of Seville , one of Hoccleve 's sources , but the liveliness , and the determination with which Hoccleve insists on going his own way , whatever his friends advise , is lifelike enough . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose we just took it that he would , and were n't surprised that he made a pretence of being unconcerned and going his own way about it . |