Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 2 | Connie Fraser was n't really any of my business , but I 'd liked the way she was taking this whole bit . |
| 3 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
| 4 | She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone . |
| 5 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 6 | ‘ In part , I think it was that Brian Eyre and I managed to establish a way of working together so that the potential for internal conflict was minimised . |
| 7 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 8 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 9 | Unlike Pushkin 's improvisatore , for whom there was ‘ no toil , no dearth , nor that unrest which is the prelude to inspiration ’ , I had to prepare the way . |
| 10 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 11 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 12 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 13 | By and large , though , I attempted to imitate the ways of the English . |
| 14 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 15 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 16 | ‘ I wanted to catch the way his mouth goes down as well as up . |
| 17 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 18 | As she reached the outskirts of the town she stopped to ask the way , and then discovered that the traffic on the road past the White Lion was being diverted because of an accident . |
| 19 | Tonight she 'd seen the way to get rid of him for good . |
| 20 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 21 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 22 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 23 | Unlike that gentle man she was neither shocked nor surprised because she had seen the way Tom Reynolds silently lusted after his employer 's wife ; she knew also that Esther was no better . |
| 24 | Travis turned away , but not before she had seen the way his face closed up . |
| 25 | The porter called her madam because she had asked the way to the private wing . |
| 26 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 27 | He frowned slightly and suddenly she longed to say something , to try and explain why she had acted the way she had . |
| 28 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 29 | When you stood in the Jungle , the house seemed dimensions away , as if , in order to get back indoors , you had to alter the way your mind worked , you had to think your way back in . |
| 30 | Did n't you say yourself that you intended finding a way to put an end to our arrangement ? |