Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 2 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 3 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 4 | She was really odd , she showed me the way but she kept saying she would n't come in because she was n't allowed to set foot in there . ’ |
| 5 | She said it the way judges passed sentence at Nuremberg . |
| 6 | Why ca n't she love me the way I am ? ’ |
| 7 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean her telling him the way she did ? ’ |