Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMERICAN Congressman Robert Menendez has called for change in the way suspects are treated in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | A brewer 's float drew the manual for part of the way ; other firemen ran with the hose cart along the canal towpath . |
| 3 | The trestle-tables were full ; people drinking , eating and reading ; the Germans we had teamed up with for part of the way back looking smug , though they could n't have been down much before us . |
| 4 | Though the coaches are scheduled to take you all the way to and from your accommodation , on occasion it may be necessary for Cosmos to employ a local coach for part of the way to and from your hotel in order to comply with strict Driver 's Hours regulations imposed to ensure your safety . |
| 5 | To the east of Nafels is an entry/exit to the motorway N3 which , running west-east , links Zurich with the southern shores of the Walensee ( flanking for part of the way the Linth canal referred to above ) and on to Chur in the Grisons . |
| 6 | Trees cut her view for part of the way and when she could see the street door leading to her flat she noticed a man dawdling by , looking up and down the pavement and then strolling back the way he had come . |
| 7 | This route follows the former Innocent Railway for part of the way and then the Niddrie Burn to Brunstane . |
| 8 | As the cyclist who organised the commuter challenge , I agree with Bernard Povey ( letters , 5 July ) that the route from Currie to the city centre is downhill for part of the way . |
| 9 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 10 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |
| 11 | What do you think about Halloween by the way ? |
| 12 | A child 's use of the equipment may well reflect previous learning ; it may be imitative or imaginative , but will certainly provide first hand experience of using and organising everyday objects , together with opportunities for experiment with the way they behave . |
| 13 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 14 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 15 | Controlling herself with an effort , she rose to her feet , caught completely off guard at the way her pulse raced , totally illogically , at the mere sight of him . |
| 16 | A systematic difference in the life-experience of women and men can have ethical implications both in generating a different moral ideal making women think differently about morality from the way men think about it — and also in justifying a different moral ideal justifying , that is , a genuinely alternative moral perspective . |
| 17 | While I was around the bus at least 8 bottle of the fizzy stuff was transported onto the team bus for consumption on the way back . |
| 18 | It was said by his acquaintances in the pub that he gave value for money , but there was a touch of genius in the way he talked that night . |
| 19 | Supporters across the globe will take part in fundraising support climbs on their local hills , and their money will go to provide fresh water for the village of Askole on the way to K2 , where infant mortality is 50% , and other schemes on every continent . |
| 20 | At first she had even felt vaguely flattered that he should feel jealous , as if , in some way , it was a kind of measure of the way he cared . |
| 21 | On the one hand there is the position of the ‘ no meaning ’ theist , occupied by those who talk of faith in the way that Wesley talked of it . |
| 22 | Many Labour councils recognized that the victory of the Conservative Party in 1979 reflected a loss of faith in the way that both the economy and the welfare state had been managed by successive governments since 1945 . |
| 23 | Other polling organisations have also detected a profound and longer-term loss of faith in the way Britain is governed . |
| 24 | but also of course for the way in which he always put it . |
| 25 | It seemed to Lisa , in her state of heightened sensitivity , that there was a touch of intimacy in the way he asked those simple questions , as though this proposition of his , which she felt surer by the minute involved some basic sexual exchange , had already been spelled out , and , what was more , accepted . |
| 26 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 27 | Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't . |
| 28 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |
| 29 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
| 30 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |