Example sentences of "[verb] the [det] way [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 2 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 3 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 4 | Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next . |
| 5 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 6 | Dealers insist that paintings should be treated the same way because of the auctions for dealers only , where ‘ dead ’ stock is exchanged and where new prices are set . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think the same way as other designers , ’ he shrugs , shuddering at the billowing skirts , fussy bows and complicated ornaments that are characteristic of the set-piece ball gowns of the Paris couture . |
| 8 | Does she feel the same way as you ? ’ |
| 9 | As he watched he saw , high above his own aircraft , a small pinpoint of red fire moving through the band of stars , heading the same way as he . |
| 10 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 11 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 12 | He is terrified that Keith is ‘ going the same way as Andrew ’ and feels frustrated and emasculated , because he can not control either of his sons ' behaviour . |
| 13 | He is terrified that Keith is ‘ going the same way as Andrew ’ and feels frustrated and emasculated , because he can not control either of his sons ' behaviour . |
| 14 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 15 | She hoped with all her heart that he was not going the same way as his stepfather ; and yet , the signs were already there . |
| 16 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 17 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 18 | And then it 's not spelt the same way as this when it 's on a boat |
| 19 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 20 | The last time they went to the rock , everything began the same way as usual . |
| 21 | I feel that the water company should do something constructive to solve the problem they have engineered , and perhaps other readers feel the same way as we do . |
| 22 | And he all but confirmed this was his last match , saying : ‘ I basically feel the same way as I have all year , and although I am not going to announce my retirement , I guess that is it . |
| 23 | He says many feel the same way as Joe — they are loyal to Dowty . |
| 24 | I fear it may have gone the same way as Honest John 's other great idea , the hard ecu . |
| 25 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 26 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 27 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 28 | ‘ He went the same way as your mother . ’ |
| 29 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 30 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |