Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , how did these so-called professionals come to get involved with us — and what is at stake for them in the way they define their relationship to us ? |
| 2 | ‘ I think I will ride pillion on the way out , but I reckon it 'll be the sidecar for me on the way back . ’ |
| 3 | And I was delighted to have the neighbourhood laid out for me in the way a child sees its domain , and to earn a little money and receive from Mme Bluot the excellent unsold cakes and breads she would otherwise have had Didier feed to the ducks . |
| 4 | We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles . |
| 5 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 6 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 7 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 8 | There was an old woman on sitting opposite me on the way home and she had two big I was looking and looking These are not real . |
| 9 | I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them . |
| 10 | They have been particularly interested in a fact that I touched upon earlier when discussing the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ , namely that existence is not a quality or attribute of something in the way that being round , or hard , or long-haired is an attribute . |
| 11 | In meditation I see that my fellow man is my friend and I try to think of him in the way Thoreau thought when he said , ‘ I knock on the earth for my friend . ’ |
| 12 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 13 | Old Ape ambled past him on the way to the back door for his dinner and his scraps , carrying a red plastic bucket . |
| 14 | Right , that 's one of mine on the way ! |
| 15 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 16 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 17 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 18 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless if there is anything I can do for you in the way of friendship , now or in the future , I hope you will not hesitate to call upon me . |
| 20 | Should you decide that you would prefer to knit your design in jacquard rather than Fair Isle , DesignaKnit can automatically separate all the colours for you in the way that is required for your particular knitting machine . |
| 21 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 22 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 23 | Freddie the Nark sat back in the cab , feeling very pleased with himself for the way he had handled such a tricky situation . |
| 24 | with you in the way it is run when you when I took my allegations to him because that 's basically what they 're saying it is I know it 's no allegations |
| 25 | Now you need to bring four passport photographs with you by the way . |
| 26 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 27 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 28 | and had a right chat with him on the way but , laugh . |
| 29 | And besides , she thought irritably , did she even want to be on speaking terms with him after the way he had treated her ? |
| 30 | And if Stavanger had left intending to be away for months he had taken remarkably little with him in the way of clothes . |