Example sentences of "way [pers pn] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | And was there any other ways you used to , is there any other things you used |
| 2 | That I do n't always feel up to … the way I used to . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is n't necessary to explain things in the way I used to . |
| 4 | That 's the way I used to do it at any rate . |
| 5 | ‘ I followed you both the way I used to do so many years ago . |
| 6 | If I go back , then I know I 'll go back to the way I used to think . |
| 7 | I think of the way you used to help Mum when we were kids — how kind and efficient you were even when you were quite small . |
| 8 | After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ? |
| 9 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 10 | She stroked my hair then , very gently , the way she used to do when I was a little kid . |
| 11 | The way we used to ! ’ |
| 12 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |
| 13 | The way we used to fight at home ; our little victories . |
| 14 | Or rather , that 's the way we used to do it . |
| 15 | the way we used to . |
| 16 | As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be . |
| 17 | While songs like ‘ Sugar Mamma ’ may not be especially wired the way they used to be , and he no longer sings about getting his sugar ‘ three times a day ’ , John Lee is still alright . |
| 18 | Do they ever hold anything down like the way they used to children 's parties at Christmas and , and ? |
| 19 | And then perhaps the next u erm lot that came , perhaps you 'd get six to a unit , so you had twelve baskets , That 's the way they used to work them . |
| 20 | the way he used to slide his folded rule |
| 21 | For a moment he entertained the hope that he might be allowed to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he used to , or even ‘ Mummy ’ , as she always called herself when speaking to other people . |
| 22 | He did n't enjoy women the way he used to , but killing them was different . |
| 23 | He flies a plane in the same way he used to sack quarterbacks ! ’ |
| 24 | Was he doomed to spend the rest of his working life watching babes in arms wheeling and dealing the way he used to ? |
| 25 | He hardly ever stays to talk the way he used to . |
| 26 | And as for the way he used to order you around — ’ |
| 27 | See when I see that used to come round Sandy Row , he was the and he used to sit and the way he used to talk . |
| 28 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 29 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |