Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 2 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |
| 3 | ‘ It all happened in exactly the way we wanted it to . |
| 4 | Yet behind the grubby façades , if you know where to look , you can still find the Unani doctors , practising in exactly the way they always have . |
| 5 | Certainly , you do read the odd story that describes a person behaving in just the way we have outlined . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 7 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 8 | And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way . |
| 9 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |
| 10 | But er no , I would just keep on exactly the way you 're doing , I would n't |
| 11 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 12 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 13 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 14 | I had a jumper that my mum knitted that went wrong and ended up twice the size it should have been . |
| 15 | ‘ Hell , you 've had experience very recently of handling some tricky situations , taking instant decisions , and they came out just the way we wanted them . |
| 16 | So next weekend when you come back off the induction you should be fired up , let's see what we 're really gon na to do here yeah . |
| 17 | Whilst this is not unacceptable , price without value is meaningless and firms must set out clearly the service they will provide and , where appropriate , show examples of the standard they expect to achieve . |
| 18 | In all cases , after stating the purpose of the report , the head teacher needs to set out clearly the decision he or she would advise the governors to take . |
| 19 | As he drove back up The Street he frowned . |
| 20 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 21 | On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol . |
| 22 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 23 | see when the water comes back out the filter it goes through this pipe right , a big unit type of thing |
| 24 | Things had n't worked out quite the way she had imagined . |
| 25 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 26 | Well , go on , do n't stop there , I 'm sure the rest is just as fascinating — presumably that , yes , you knew Ryan , but when you flew over to find out why the hell he could n't get something so simple as planning permission you decided to do something about it yourself , and there was gullible little Hilary , all ready and waiting to fall into your arms . |
| 27 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 28 | The drawback is that lots of people use them and that lots and lots of people will want to use it on precisely the night you require to be there . |