Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other times , I feel so repressed and pressurised , I long to change the way I look , to be taller and lose some weight , but I know that 's not the answer . ’ |
| 2 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 3 | I … well , I want to find a way to ensure that we have a method that will help us produce only the best and happiest of individuals , so that when the time comes for control to be applied , it can be done gainfully . |
| 4 | Then I try to find a way of expressing the idea and there is n't one . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 7 | We are not Americans , even though I do hate the way we sometimes run around them like the little brother . |
| 8 | But I 've seen a way to get a message out . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen the way he gives confidence to the sick , in spite of his youth . |
| 10 | " I 've seen the way she treats you , sir … like a child , " Jane blurted out . |
| 11 | I 've seen the way Louise looks at you , and Roger and Amy obviously approve . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen the way she looks at you ! |
| 14 | I 've seen the way he looks at you , Virgie ! |
| 15 | ‘ Buster 's one of my heroes , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've admired the way he and other old-timers used to do their own stunts . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 17 | If he 's really cornered , he might think well I 've got to fight , I 've got no way round it . |
| 18 | I need to find a way to persuade him . ’ |
| 19 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 20 | ‘ I have employed every way I know , ’ said Bowet wearily , ‘ to procure money for his Grace 's needs . |
| 21 | I have left the way clear for anyone to take over as chairman . |
| 22 | I have tried every way I wrote let a letter hoping somebody would actually come and ask me what was wrong . |
| 23 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 24 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 25 | I have suggested a way of learning which uses the skills of both the teacher and the trained nurse in the clinical environment , working together to improve patient care . |
| 26 | It can also help to raise your awareness of new research and any political influences or undercurrents which stand to affect the way services are managed . |
| 27 | One example is the use of objects , as opposed to the experience of actual peoples , to objectify the dual notions of orientalism and primitivism , which have dominated the way the Occident has historically constructed its self-image . |
| 28 | I think that participating in an Earthwatch project is one of the best ways to gain some knowledge about the environment and its real problems and therefore is a ‘ must ’ if you want to understand the way the environment reacts to human activities . |
| 29 | Just a slice of wholemeal toast lightly spread with honey or marmalade ( if you must have ‘ butter ’ , use a low-fat substitute ) is ideal ; but if you want to vary the way you start your days , the ideas below are inventive alternatives . |
| 30 | You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten . |