Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be grateful if the Under-Secretary could comment on the way in which housing benefit is calculated . |
| 2 | " I wonder , " she said , " if a woman could fall into the ways and after a while it would n't bother her . |
| 3 | There was nothing Belinda could do about the way she felt . |
| 4 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 5 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 6 | He drew in his breath with elation , but he could see by the way she bit her lip that she had n't intended to let the confession slip . |
| 7 | I can be taken in by ambulance and bypass all these delays , but I could die on the way to hospital . |
| 8 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 9 | Erm what you , er what you could manage in the way of repayments what , er er you had to put one third of the full price down . |
| 10 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 11 | His face seemed to show nothing except benevolent interest , but Julia could tell from the way that he was carrying his head and a certain tension in his body that they were approaching a crisis point . |
| 12 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 13 | She could tell by the way he ground out his cigarette on the floor . |
| 14 | He ( or she ) could get in the way of the running of the party machine . |
| 15 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 16 | She is n't curio I mean yo er erm , I can see if you it could get in the way of accepting the story . |
| 17 | ‘ Eventually I was able to convince Michael that he could sing in the way he now does , ’ says Lloyd Webber . |
| 18 | There was nothing more he could say in the way of argument , so he decided to plague her other address with mail . |