Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midland rose in the same way as it later fell — by acquisition . |
| 2 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 3 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) . |
| 4 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 5 | Fulco , son and heir of William Michell , surrendered by attorney his copyhold at Cradley , Worcs. , to the use of Richard Smith ; both were non-resident , as was William Bere , who surrendered in the same way at the next court . |
| 6 | Open , friendly and honest by nature herself , she was happiest with others who acted in the same way , but Adam Burns was a riddle she doubted she would ever find the answer to . |
| 7 | Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above . |
| 8 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 9 | Most encounters started in the same way , with a question about the bikes . |
| 10 | Andy and Peter are both happy to admit that TMAM started in the same way as most enthusiast-driven collections — with no collecting policy at all . |
| 11 | Like the case , some years ago , when two men died in the same way from similar stab wounds on the same day in the same street . |
| 12 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 13 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 14 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |
| 15 | ‘ All who were not present when [ the formula ] was agreed reacted in the same way against it , and felt that it would be read by the whole country as a capitulation on the part of the Government to the threat of a General Strike . ’ |
| 16 | Simon spoke in the same way : ‘ greed and freedom , they 're the basis of conservatism ’ . |
| 17 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 18 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 19 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 20 | The lower marble fragment from Delos stood in the same way , and no doubt the upper also ; and throughout the archaic age the naked male statue stands always just as these . |
| 21 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |