Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [det] way " in BNC.
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1 | Nature before me has come this way , |
2 | And then , ‘ God , how I hate talking this way . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | So , cos I do actually sit down and work it out , and me mum comes in and says , what you doing , , so I do use that way . |
9 | I told Malpass he could find me at Stuart Street and , for a couple of streets , I did head that way . |
10 | It 's true that I did feel that way at the time . |
11 | I aim to stay that way . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | I 've timed both ways and there is n't any more than twenty seconds in it . |
21 | Well I I 've answered that way sir , cos I ca n't be sure . |
22 | I 've chosen that way because the longest distance without water is two hundred and fifty miles , compared with at least five hundred the way you 're going . ’ |
23 | I said I 've come all way from Llandudno to see what you 're doing . |
24 | ‘ I 've driven this way from Mariánské Láznë . ’ |
25 | ‘ I 've tried all ways . ’ |
26 | With the kind assistance of the local estate agencies I have gone some way to tracing the subsequent history of the two properties owned by the above company . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I have mentioned some ways in which section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 might be amended . |
29 | For myself I have to reject this way of contemplating the Church because of its individualistic bias . |
30 | I wanted to stay that way . |