Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 2 | Thank you for the complimentary way you 've acted . |
| 3 | So it , it , it 's a , it goes much beyond merely a kind of er , cliche , of saying , all people can be sometimes good or people can be sometimes bad , and it tells you about the specific way in which this th this comes about . |
| 4 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 5 | This will build up your aerobic fitness and train you in the right way . |
| 6 | Cradling the baby in front of you in the traditional way , see above . |
| 7 | When you reach shoulder shaping in a pattern it will generally instruct you in the time-honoured way to ‘ cast off ’ as group of stitches at the beginning of the next given number of rows . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 9 | If you have answered ‘ yes ’ to three or more of them , you are probably perpetuating this self-image by looking for friends or partners who will treat you in the same way . |
| 10 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 11 | They do n't heal you in the same way if you ca n't share them ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ And they supported you in the same way ? ’ she asked gently . |
| 13 | We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle . |
| 14 | Notice what Jesus says in verse seven , he says , I tell you in the same way there 'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance . |
| 15 | I tell you in the same way , there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents . |
| 16 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |
| 17 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 18 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 19 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 20 | At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury . |
| 21 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
| 22 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 23 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 24 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |
| 25 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 26 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 27 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 28 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 29 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 30 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |