Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having chosen Ernulf , Anselm allowed him to work in his own way . |
| 2 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 3 | If you live in heaven you live in the sinless It would be totally inconsistent , therefore , to pers to persist in your sinful ways , opposing God in your life . |
| 4 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 5 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 6 | What gives you the right to talk to me this way ? |
| 7 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 8 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 9 | She must have thought , at that moment , that each singer was a ‘ kitten ’ in distress , and she was no doubt trying to help in her own way . |
| 10 | ‘ When I think , ’ he said happily , ‘ that I , Pumblechook , was able to help in my small way , by taking you to play at Miss — ’ |
| 11 | As soon as the reins are removed , the horse is liable to revert to his original way of going . |
| 12 | Was it surprising that the Masai preferred to stick to their own way of doing things ? |
| 13 | He had no right to look at her that way . |
| 14 | So therefore we 've got to look at it that way . |
| 15 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 16 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 17 | I am , I am indeed , yes , yes , I I 've got to deal with it some way , somehow . |
| 18 | The real world of ‘ scientism ’ which could be characterised in terms having nothing to do with our particular ways of responding to it is a myth , with which it is quite inept to confuse the real ‘ real world ’ . |
| 19 | You may feel inadequate at this point , because whatever you do for her will not seem to lift the cloud of her despair , but by being willing simply to be there and available in the background , accepting uncritically her inevitable mood-swings , and allowing her to talk , weep , or remain silent just as she wishes , you will be proving your concern for her ; and loving concern and the right to grieve in their own way is what the bereaved need most of all . |
| 20 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 21 | He was unable to observe , however — as he would have liked to do in his ever-observant way — just what the expression on Jilly Jonathan 's pretty face might have been . |
| 22 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 23 | ‘ We are all trying to cope in our own way . |
| 24 | These Savage Orcs were happy to continue in their old ways , using metal weapons and armour on occasions when they could steal or trade it , but on the whole sticking to their ancient traditions . |
| 25 | And , worst of all , monetary policy has been controlled by a central banker who does not believe in shock therapy , and who has inflated the money supply to allow companies to continue in their old ways . |
| 26 | Every species has its own intricate behaviour repertoire of survival mechanisms and even the seemingly boring species soon become exciting when one starts to probe into their particular way of life . |
| 27 | Many co-workers — Tod included — razz him about it and everything , but Mikio is free to do this , to read in his own way . |
| 28 | At Becher 's Brook on the second circuit he put in a stupendous leap , pitched on landing but was confidently gathered together by Champion to continue on his triumphant way , pursued by Rubstic and Royal Mail . |
| 29 | Thus human beings , animals , plants , and all other genuine units in the world , on whatever scale , struggle each to exist in its own way , this , on the one side , being a matter of a certain physical individual having an inbuilt tendency to operate , so far as is possible , to preserve itself , in its distinctive form , and on the other hand , of the corresponding mind having an inbuilt tendency to preserve its particular form of experience . |
| 30 | He was the only father you 've ever known , so it is n't a crime to refer to him that way ! |