Example sentences of "my way " in BNC.

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1 I write this letter in the hope that someone will explain the errors of my ways , forgive me for mixing relativistic and Newtonian physics , and enlighten me .
2 you are familiar with all my ways .
3 That might just be my age or being set in my ways , but I do n't see that excitement .
4 In a mature relationship imitation is replaced by reciprocation , in which the parties frankly recognise their differences while resisting the temptation to think that ‘ because my ways are different from yours they are therefore better ’ .
5 ‘ This young girl you 've engaged , Mrs Markham , ’ she said , laying great emphasis on the word girl , ‘ I should like to get her into my ways or , shall we say , Harry 's ways , before I leave .
6 I just needed to be told to change my ways . ’
7 ‘ I 've learned my lesson and changed my ways .
8 ‘ Disturbs the even tenor of my ways . ’
9 Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways .
10 in my ways .
11 I 'm used to my ways , Mr. Kopek .
12 For a quiet life , I should now head straight to the welcoming arms and biscuit tin of Ms Topaz , to be lectured on the error of my ways and dispatched to the new homogenised spook pool for retraining .
13 Can anybody show me the error of my ways ?
14 Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him .
15 You will see it my way .
16 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you .
17 But that has always been my way , he wrote .
18 She caught me on my way to the back door .
19 ‘ Someone , ’ said Inspector Milsom meaningfully , ‘ seems to have been altogether too careful to my way of thinking . ’
20 I looked at them , they looked at me , and I turned and hurriedly made my way downstairs .
21 It was my desire to be active , to earn my way in life , which encouraged me into these new fields , that is it was a positive impulse which drove me on .
22 I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry .
23 ‘ OK baby , let's roll , ’ I said , and with a roar and a lurch , I was on my way .
24 I slowly made my way down the road .
25 Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station .
26 ‘ Yes , sorry — my way of talking .
27 I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line .
28 In no time at all it jerked forward , and there I was , on my way .
29 ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you .
30 The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way .
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