Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 2 | It is a practical guide for the beginner — or for those who have never been taught the proper way ! |
| 3 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 4 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 5 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 6 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 7 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 8 | If mass had been negative , space-time would have been curved the other way , like the surface of a saddle . |
| 9 | The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench . |
| 10 | Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly . |
| 11 | Make sure the three electrolytic capacitors are connected the correct way round as shown . |
| 12 | Yeah , he sort of sneaks , sneaks round everybody when they 're looking the other way . |
| 13 | You 're looking the wrong way . |
| 14 | No , no , you 're going the other way ! |
| 15 | Are you sure we 're going the right way ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No more did I. I hope I 'm wrong but I — I think we 're going the wrong way . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're going the wrong way about it , though . |
| 18 | Henry you 're going the wrong way , as usual . |
| 19 | He 's convinced though they are heading the right way . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 21 | Determined to be her Uncle 's guide Erika said , ‘ I think that we are going the wrong way , Uncle . |
| 22 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 23 | ‘ You are going the wrong way ! ’ |
| 24 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 25 | Comparison of this drawing with the other ones in this planning section will reveal that the linking curves are facing the other way . |
| 26 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 27 | Now what if something had been coming the other way ? |
| 28 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 29 | 17.39 ( i ) Pupils should be taught the conventional ways of forming letter shapes , lower case and capitals , through purposeful guided practice in order to foster a comfortable and legible handwriting style . |
| 30 | Now , ahead of d'Alembord , the gun-fire rumbled like dull thunder to remind him that the two thousand six hundred pounds must be earned the hard way . |