Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 2 | First , however , I want to compare two ways in which we can look at evolution . |
| 3 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 4 | I should perhaps say a little about how I came to think this way : that the key to educational change is in the stance that teachers individually and collectively adopt towards change . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |
| 6 | I began to see one way out of our dilemma . |
| 7 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 8 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 9 | There is , however , a very strong feeling in fashionable knitwear this year for double jacquard patterns Usually I try to find easy ways to achieve this look and if you do n't have a ribber and a colour changer you can get away with two layers of Fair Isle or single jacquard , neatly sewn together to make a beautiful fabric for this time of year . |
| 10 | I aim to stay that way . |
| 11 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 12 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 13 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 14 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 15 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 16 | I had to get half way under the bottom strand of barbed wire to see inside properly and as I did so , my hand closed on something smooth and rubbery half buried in the ground . |
| 17 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 18 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 19 | For myself I have to reject this way of contemplating the Church because of its individualistic bias . |
| 20 | I wanted to stay that way . |
| 21 | If you intend to stay that way I suggest you stop talking and do as you 're told , ’ he added succinctly . |
| 22 | ‘ And if you intend to come this way regularly wear more sensible shoes , ’ he added curtly . |
| 23 | you got to think that way have n't you ? |
| 24 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 25 | We have joined a centralised unitary state , and at some stage we shall have to ask the people , ‘ Do you want to go this way , or do you not ? ’ |
| 26 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 27 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 28 | That means that if you decide you want to go one way and he has other ideas , you have to convince him that your wish takes priority . |
| 29 | However , the signals can also be used to show how much you want to go that way , the harder one presses the stronger the signal and the more rapid the output to the computer . |
| 30 | If you know that a slightly longer sweater will make you look slimmer and you want to look that way , it is up to you to examine the diagram before you knit and work accordingly . |