Example sentences of "in the [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 2 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 3 | Oh absolutely marvellous we watched the house go up brick by brick , you know , we , we used to come down here and think oh my goodness wo n't it be marvellous to be able to run some water and have a bath in the normal way you know cos we do n't , we 'd both always had electricity and baths and everything else until this happened and erm , we er , oh it was wonderful , really wonderful absolutely marvellous |
| 4 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
| 5 | The great majority of practitioners proclaimed their belief in the only way they could — through sound classroom practice . |
| 6 | We are married in the only way we can be married , believe me . |
| 7 | Make amends in the only way we could . |
| 8 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 9 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 10 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 11 | The smugness in his voice was here too , in the studied way he licked upper and lower lips with his tongue before he spoke , and tapped the fingertips of each hand together as he judged the broken man at his feet . |
| 12 | In the usual way we 'd have gone to the morning room after dinner and sat awhile . |
| 13 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 14 | She was still an awkward presence because she was never relaxed ; there was an unnatural quality of alertness in her posture , in the intent way she stared at you as you spoke , in her sudden jerky movements . |
| 15 | But in the ordinary way we should n't expect to , of course , he is n't a writing man . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State hoped that qualified members of the teaching staff would pursue research that would contribute to the ‘ better performance of their teaching duties ’ , but he did not envisage that ‘ in the ordinary way it will be necessary for members of the academic staff to devote the whole or most of their time to research ’ . |
| 17 | However , if you set about it in the right way it can be an easy road , a pleasant country ramble rather than an attempt to scale Everest . |
| 18 | However , if you look at things in the right way it is all quite logical and straightforward . |
| 19 | We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things . |
| 20 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 21 | Cringing cats desperately hug buildings for cover , dealing with their inherited agrophobia in the best way they can . |
| 22 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 23 | Would you like to tackle that lot in the best way you can ? |
| 24 | ‘ Graham Taylor was trying to get us through to the semi-finals in the best way he knows — rightly or wrongly . |
| 25 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 26 | Eleanor Thorne had been thin , even then , but an upright woman , straight as a twig , straight in the old way they were all taught , books on heads , stiff-corseted . |
| 27 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 28 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 29 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 30 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |