Example sentences of "way [pers pn] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were never committed here the way I am at Sleet . ’ |
| 2 | It worked too — just look at the way you were on stage tonight ! ’ |
| 3 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 4 | yes , and I sometimes think that way I know with Ken 's two brothers the way they behaved with wife number one and the way they are with wife number two is a different world . |
| 5 | Can we honestly assume that the way they are in school will be the way they relate to an employer , or to younger children in an adventure playground ? |
| 6 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 7 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 8 | ‘ Strong ’ formulations of the principle claim that the universe is the way it is in order for us to be here to observe it . |
| 9 | When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space . |
| 10 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 11 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 12 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 13 | If undoing is unsuccessful , or if you preferred your document the way it was before undoing , Undo a second time . |