Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 2 | ‘ Obviously the odds against Scotland overcoming everything and winning are high , but matches of this type do not always work out the way they have looked beforehand . ’ |
| 3 | And sometimes things do n't work out the way you expect them to . |
| 4 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 5 | The gradual extension of the state 's role in crime control certainly affected some sorts of crime , particularly property crime , but government institutions rarely worked in the ways intended by higher officials . |
| 6 | To the places that had n't quite worked out the way the designers had planned , the places where kids drift in a city , where they make up their own version of the city . |