Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |
| 2 | Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael . |
| 3 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
| 4 | I mean one way we can accommodate that is to put pressure resistant valves in , maybe and drop the pressures a bit at night . |
| 5 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 6 | So I start from them and I count this way . |
| 7 | Now we get to look at these every month , and I want them to keep them to talk to them , to classes about it every month , and so this one , alright it goes back about , but it does n't matter , because what it does , I hope any way , is gives us some thoughts . |
| 8 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 9 | Whenever I want to knit bands of reversed stocking stitch now , I know two ways to do it which are much better than using the garter bar . |
| 10 | I know six ways out of here that are n't past the desk . ’ |
| 11 | Two — ’ a finger joined the thumb ‘ — I know another way through the keep that will take us out to a side-gate which , if we 're lucky , wo n't be guarded … |
| 12 | ‘ I — I get this way when I 'm unhappy . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I guess that way is pretty universal . ’ |
| 14 | Like , I suppose that way if I was hit I might stand a chance of only losing one arm or one leg . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I suppose that way you should be |
| 16 | Oh right said Daryl and Elsie you ought to know I suppose any way , I 'd suspect you 'd like a sister , it 's nice having one . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't know why I feel this way . |
| 18 | I think of her and there is speechless upheaval in me — I feel this way when I 'm in Zurich , Frankfurt or Paris and the locals ca n't speak the lingo . |
| 19 | So some mornings I go one way , and some mornings the other . |
| 20 | Now I ca n't remember , if I go one way I 'm gon na finish back up in |
| 21 | you know what I 've just got , erm , if I go this way , cos I bet you Sarah 's up at erm fucking window looking for the car going by |
| 22 | I go this way . |
| 23 | ‘ Just make sure I stay that way , ’ said Amiss . |
| 24 | Yeah , but I do any way . |
| 25 | I think this way . |
| 26 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 27 | that 's what I think any way mm |
| 28 | It did n't matter if they were town councillors or what , if these policemen said not this way , this way and they said no I live this way , they got a clip in the ear as quick as anything . |
| 29 | Well , I prefer this way . |
| 30 | Then I can deliver the finished uniform when I come this way again … perhaps in a week or so ? ’ |