Example sentences of "[conj] not [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The second is that they 're not all beautiful — or not in the way you mean . |
| 2 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 3 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 4 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 5 | He had indeed upset her , but not in the way he thought . |
| 6 | The teacher is telling a story in Yoruba , but not in the way 1 , an Englishman , would tell it . |
| 7 | They both retained a certain affection for me but not in the way I wanted . |
| 8 | It thus becomes clear that the play of pronouns in the chiasmus of the narrative circuit through which the subject plays out its split existence does indeed function as an ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ in Thru , though not in the way Greimas intended . |