Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [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 | There is something quite stunning about ahead of shiny , glossy hair but as we all know , keeping it that way can sometimes prove difficult . |
| 4 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 9 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The moon called to her , she thought , pulling her this way and that . |
| 14 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 15 | Look I 'm turning it that way . |
| 16 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 17 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 18 | So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top . |
| 19 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 20 | Full of hatred and Greek yoghurt she pushed and pulled at Otley sending him this way and that . |
| 21 | and I think it 's just getting him that way , come on shall we put your |
| 22 | Linfield have five games left this season — all cup finals in a matter of speaking — and manager Trevor Anderson will certainly be treating them that way . |
| 23 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 24 | I do n't somehow see Wendy as having me that way . |
| 25 | She was clearly mentally disturbed , and the reason that I got in touch with the legal project was to see if there 's anything that could be done by them to start giving her some way of getting in touch , getting to solve her problem . |
| 26 | That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect . |
| 27 | Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt . |
| 28 | ‘ If you look the way the snow falls , ’ he said hesitantly , ‘ you can see the air conditioning is blowing it this way , ’ he pointed , ‘ so it piles up more on this side of things than that side . |
| 29 | Sure , I could adapt any song and get away with it , but I ca n't say I 'd be as satisfied doing it that way , and I certainly would n't choose to interpret those things on one guitar . ’ |
| 30 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |