Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , far be it from me to stand in the way of close international relations … ’ |
| 2 | I mean in a way the purse thing is a bit more distant |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 4 | Well I mean in a way it would be nice to have one more new one |
| 5 | Yeah but I mean in a way you can understand |
| 6 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 7 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 8 | That 's the point where we go wrong — I mean in the way we think about eternity . |
| 9 | The other day , I got in the way of a car and the driver had to swerve to avoid me . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I got in the way just now , when you wanted to talk about the vineyard . ’ |
| 11 | But I found out the way to braid leather myself . |
| 12 | You do n't mind if I sleep on the way back , do you ? ’ |
| 13 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 14 | Yeah , well I do , believe me , I feel very s Mom , I gag on the way t |
| 15 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 16 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 17 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 18 | I co-operated in every way with the investigation . ’ |
| 19 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 20 | ‘ But I know of a way . ’ |
| 21 | And I know from the way you talk |
| 22 | I refer to the way in which higher education , as an institution within society , acts not just as a vehicle for economic reproduction within the social classes , but also as a means of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ . |
| 23 | How am I doing by the way Jennifer ? |
| 24 | ‘ I guess in a way , every comment from him was facetious . |
| 25 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 26 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose in a way , I was living out my own part of the Ziggy decadence and the Ziggy demise . |
| 28 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I suppose in a way I had . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose in a way that 's what it did feel like . |