Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 2 | Parissien acknowledges another benefit : ‘ the bottom line , for those who want to see it that way , is that the course is also a guide to how to put money onto a house , rather than take it off . ’ |
| 3 | The British embassy in Washington , however , predicted serious damage to Anglo-American relations if the British were too critical or tried to go their own way . |
| 4 | Las Palmas is a busy commercial harbour so the movement of small boats is largely ignored , and yachts entering or leaving are expected to find their own way through the traffic . |
| 5 | They are expected to find their own way into our education system . |
| 6 | They might be the nicest person , but prison has made me that way . |
| 7 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 8 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 10 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 11 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 12 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 13 | Erm , then anything else I 've said today , this is really not holy writ , erm , I 'm just going to make or suggested arrangement of these dividers and if you want to keep them this way that 's fine , and if you want to do something else with them that 's also fine . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So , we 're gon na see where he tried to get his wicked way with Nicola , are we ? ’ |
| 16 | No , fortunately the other companies are stand alone companies erm making erm you know making their own way , and they do n't have to fear erm Richard coming and stripping them of their hard earned earnings to put into the airline erm because erm you know because fortunately we 've got resources elsewhere to look after the airline and see its development through . |
| 17 | Like many well known dictators , the King always has to have his own way , and is terrified of being laughed at . |
| 18 | ‘ You know just how stubborn the Colonel can be when he wants to get his own way . ’ |
| 19 | But since the rules are that the place has to pay its own way , he has welcomed all comers , from the World Indoor Bowls Championship to Militant Tendency , who staged their annual conference in the Palace of the People . |
| 20 | The sequence of accidents through which the hero has to steer his suffering way to achieve fame and fortune ( even to the extent , in Peter Simple , of years incarcerated in Bedlam by a wicked uncle ) must be viewed in the context of society nearly two centuries ago ; even so , these are organised , contrived and deliberately sensational plots which serve to contain the sprawling , spanking reality of Marryat 's detail . |
| 21 | Our researches have confirmed Shandruk 's indication that the reason for this was that the Ukrainian Division was simply permitted to make its own way to Italy . |
| 22 | ‘ From now on I want to make my own way in the world , be independent . ’ |
| 23 | Lord Jesus , we cry to You that You will bring peace to those who use force to try to gain their selfish way ; use Your people to be peacemakers ; help us to work and pray for a world where You will be King . |
| 24 | If anyone says to you , Oh you do n't want to remember it that way . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman claimed that Itoh had been involved in discussions with Sun regarding OEM supply of the X-terminal built by C Itoh , but Sun had decided to go its own way . |
| 26 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 27 | Mind you , that could have been because he was happy he 'd got his own way . |
| 28 | I 'd got my own way about the home birth after all ! ’ |
| 29 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 30 | I suppose we thought Vic must have said try it this way because Matt and I were already into our quarrel and it shows what a pro he was to his fingertips that he carried on as per normal . |