Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 2 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 3 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 4 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 5 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 6 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 7 | A text , says Furman , quoting the French semiotician Roland Barthes , is a reading of a text : a reader , like a musician faced with a score , appropriates it in a way that is meaningful . |
| 8 | If that does n't work , look again at the word , and say it in a way that will remind you of how it is spelled : say Wed-nes-day ; clim-bed , and pronounce the bits separately ; but remember how the word really sounds . |
| 9 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 10 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 11 | Jews , on the other hand , used it as a way of referring to God . |
| 12 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 13 | She only kept her wedding ring because one of the robbers dropped it on the way out . |
| 14 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
| 15 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 16 | Well I 've tried to explain to him , I 've actually sat down and said , You have got , and I 've done it in a way of , of sets . |
| 17 | Erm that 's business , I think if you just put er eight per cent on that , just p whatever , if we 've got a net list , put it out the way . |
| 18 | yes , they 're very good , because they come , they come up with the points and the put it in the way relating to the clients , what the clients would want to know . |
| 19 | Mosquitoes also use sound as a mating call , but they produce and receive it in a way that is all their own . |
| 20 | Yeah we 'll do it on the way back |
| 21 | why did n't you do it on the way home ? |
| 22 | If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’ |
| 23 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 24 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |
| 25 | Critics of LMS have seen it as a way of bringing about education cuts without blame being ascribed to either local or central government . |
| 26 | Six months ago he 'd have gone for it , maybe written back to some of them , seen it as a way out of the rut that his life had become … but not now . |
| 27 | Well it was a system that er was n't liked but it was operated because , in my opinion anyway , because the employers er had seen it as a way of getting more work out of you . |
| 28 | The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road . |
| 29 | Nevertheless to consider the National Curriculum as a list of subjects runs the danger of expressing it in a way which over-emphasises information and a narrow range of skills at the expense of the development of a full range of socially useful skills , attitudes and ideas , which is usually the concern of interested parents and can even be seen in a child 's view of the purpose of education . |
| 30 | She could sense it in the way men talked to her , the sideways glances of strangers . |