Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 3 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 4 | ‘ To treat them in this way is disgraceful . ’ |
| 5 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 6 | When you have got the idea of how to tighten them in this way , you can do the exercise anywhere . |
| 7 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 8 | Makarenko describes them in this way : |
| 9 | Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way |
| 10 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 11 | Does presenting them in this way , grouped in the separate chapters , aid discourse type identification ? |
| 12 | You did n't weight them in any way ? |
| 13 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 14 | Third parties have no legal basis for a claim that a treaty merely affects them in some way , or that non-performance or reduced performance has frustrated their own expectations ; nor can they interfere with the rights of other States to enter into such treaties . |
| 15 | The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation . |
| 16 | You get them round that way , and eventually you ask them about themselves , and you get round to it . |
| 17 | These three questions clearly overlap , but can be treated as conceptually separate , and it is helpful to disentangle them in this way at least initially . |
| 18 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 19 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 20 | I did n't oppose them in any way you see . |
| 21 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 22 | It is sometimes referred to as ‘ non-interventionist ’ observation , though I find that a rather jargonish term and I think bird-watching is a good simple way of referring to observation which is very similar to that of the ornithologist who constructs a ‘ hide ’ so as to be able to observe birds in their natural habitat without disturbing them in any way . |
| 23 | They must walk into position behind the rabbits without disturbing them in any way . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 25 | Those who use them in this way thereby manifest their own acceptance of them as guiding rules and with this attitude there goes a characteristic vocabulary different from the natural expressions of the external point of view . |
| 26 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 27 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
| 28 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 29 | We do n't condone them in any way , especially if they have racist or sexist aspects . |
| 30 | Once the Chairman has signed the minutes no one is empowered to alter them in any way . |