Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the way [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
2 | ( These are only my personal feelings and I would n't want to put anybody else down for the way they dress . ) |
3 | Do they ever hold anything down like the way they used to children 's parties at Christmas and , and ? |
4 | Perhaps they did not like what you were saying — it did n't fit in with the way they see their magazine . |
5 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
6 | Is the agent the type of person or company that will fit in with the way your company carries out its business ? |
7 | Because it fits in with the way you see yourself ? |
8 | I know no England bowlers swing an old ball in the way Waqar and I do , but that is down to the way we grip it . |
9 | I would n't put it down to the way I was manipulated as a child . ’ |
10 | No matter that I had no experience , I had rehearsed this role for years , blocking everything out — right down to the way I would sit , ministering to the words of the desired object — yet never believing that I might actually perform . |
11 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
12 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
13 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
14 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
15 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
16 | join it up with the way you got , that way . |
17 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
18 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
19 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
20 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
21 | So I have to ask has anyone , and I underline anyone , who talks about economic policies , recessions , recoveries and jobs , yet begun to face up to the way everything depends on growth as before and even more growth than before . |
22 | We 've had the speakers up here saying that they 're going out , they 're knocking on doors , so you know , it 's not just about money , but I tell you what if they go on in the way they 're going on there 's no way Joe Bloggs is going out quite tonight on a vote night saying come out and give us your vote . |
23 | Help me to grow and progress from this point on in the way I understand , respond and conduct my relationships with others . |
24 | Do you mind if I just go on in the way I 'm used to ? ’ |
25 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
26 | I 'd rather die than go back out the way I was . |
27 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
28 | Well I was having an affair with his wife and I loved her so much I wanted to marry her , I wanted his land and his money , so I thought if he was out of the way it would be easier to get what I wanted and of course it was . |
29 | Though he was opposed to the offer of the Crown to Cromwell in the spring of 1657 , with that out of the way he came round in support of the revised draft of the Humble Petition and Advice ( June 1657 ) . |
30 | Listen , listen , listen I 'm not taking the piss out of the point cos I know the point 's very serious but I 'm taking the piss out of the way he said it cos I think he sounded stupid but that does n't mean I have any disrespect for erm |