Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 2 | I want to know you the way no man has ever known a woman before . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's unfair for another reason : most of the walkers , climbers and cavers that come to the Dales , the Lakes and the mountains come because they love them , because they respect them and care for them and want to keep them the way they are so that the people of the future can enjoy the wildness and the greatness of the earth . |
| 5 | I want to touch you the way no man has ever touched you . |
| 6 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 7 | But it 's written for the non-microprocessor specialist to try to show him the way to erm exploit these things . |
| 8 | I suppose there he he did n't like to leave it the way , the way it was done |
| 9 | ‘ That means I get to do it the way I think best . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure Anne could change him if she wanted to , but she seems to like him the way he is . |
| 11 | If we release you , you will try to expose us the way Ward was going to . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm never gon na , I 'm never gon na learn learn it by concentrating on how I 'm gon na do it , I 'm just gon na have to sing it the way it is because I 'm not gon na learn to do it am I ? |
| 13 | If she 'd hoped to unnerve her the way she did Letty then she was wrong . |
| 14 | Retracing her steps , she encountered one of the paper 's rare female employees , who offered to show her the way to the library . |
| 15 | You certainly did n't seem to like me the way I was ! ’ |
| 16 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 17 | What I 'm trying to do is trying to get it the way it will be in an exam so , cos in an exam you 're |
| 18 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
| 19 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 20 | Blackout is no good while fires are still burning to show them the way , the bloody swines . ’ |
| 21 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 22 | I wanted your poetry to be better , wanted to show you the way into a wider perspective of words and feelings . |
| 23 | Now I have gone beyond thirty one because I just wanted to show you the way it goes and it 's easy . |