Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the way [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 2 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 3 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 5 | You certainly did n't seem to like me the way I was ! ’ |
| 6 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 7 | ‘ Touch me the way you touch Ryan . ’ |
| 8 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 10 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 11 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean , if you can show me the way I will take you by car , ’ I said . |
| 13 | If she 'd hoped to unnerve her the way she did Letty then she was wrong . |
| 14 | It used to annoy her the way everybody took no notice . |
| 15 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 16 | ‘ My master will take it as a sign , a beacon to lead him the way you wish . ’ |
| 17 | I show him , I show him the way I do it , and go through it with him . |
| 18 | We finally beat him , we did n't beat him the way we wanted , but we won . |
| 19 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 20 | When you put it the way you put it , I suppose I should have guessed that you had guessed . |
| 21 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll bring it the way it is anyway . |
| 23 | I says , I 'll go next week This was after three weeks , I says , I 'll go on next week and I 'll take over the job of yard foreman , and I 'll do it the way I want it done , not the way that . |
| 24 | I am not anticipating that anybody in this room will do it the way I say I do it . |
| 25 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 26 | deserve us The way I look at it we 're a public |
| 27 | ‘ And if you do n't like me the way I am now , then that 's very easily remedied . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 29 | John will have told you the way we operate er we we we er we |
| 30 | And be better remember him the way he was , I think . |