Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan showed me another way out of the bar , so we avoided Young Trotsky , and walked with me to the van . |
| 2 | She was pleased that Faye drank it that way , since without food value it would n't affect her blood sugar level or insulin intake and therefore did n't have to be regulated in quantity and timing . |
| 3 | Miss Honey sensed that Matilda wanted it that way . |
| 4 | Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers : |
| 5 | Willie liked it that way . |
| 6 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
| 7 | Why , if Bostock treated her that way she would be inclined to fetch a stick to him , for the vapours ( as Mrs Frere so dismally attested ) would be the sole alternative . |
| 8 | Though later , driving home , Nathan saw it another way . |
| 9 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 10 | Hurst summarised it this way : ‘ Much of the evolution of genetical systems is internally driven ’ , as a reaction to a series of conflicts generated by solutions to previous conflicts . |
| 11 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |