Example sentences of "the [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's the normal way we think about things , and it makes a lot of sense . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 5 | It was the nicest way I could have thought of put it . |
| 6 | The unofficial side was represented by the friendly way he was being offered coffee in a thin china cup , and the official side by the nervous energy of the AC 's manner and the fact that he was unobtrusively taking notes . |
| 7 | It was the odd way he was looking at her , almost as if he were some kind of predatory animal waiting to pounce . |
| 8 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 9 | She was in no mood to see Anna ; all she wanted was to go to her room and be alone , to think about this strange day and the stranger way it had ended . |
| 10 | We believe the police in general should be commended for the professional way they conducted themselves in the face of provocation . ’ |
| 11 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , if you look at things in the right way it is all quite logical and straightforward . |
| 14 | We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things . |
| 15 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 16 | After a traditionally disastrous dress rehearsal the director came into Arthur 's dressing-room , which he shared with Flute the Bellows Mender , and said cheerily , ‘ I tell you what , why do n't you go back to the awful way you used to do it ? |
| 17 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 18 | This necessitates OLE ( object linking and embedding ) functionality and common dialogue boxes — i.e … the pleasant way you navigate to a given file with the pretty yellow folders . |
| 19 | In the usual way we 'd have gone to the morning room after dinner and sat awhile . |
| 20 | " This is n't the usual way we go . |
| 21 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |
| 22 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 23 | Can I er take the opportunity to clear up some technical sort of er technical points to do with the plans , however , probably inadvertent , the first one , erm in the er letter copy of the letter that you sent to the er Planning Authority , erm and you mentioned one plan being erm handed , it does n't say , actually it did n't specify which house or which is the proper way it should be handled , but in the small plan showing the site , and the position of the houses , the attached er garage on the house on plot number two , that 's the one erm you notice the bridge , this end one , is shown on the right , but in the detailed plan of the house it 's shown on the left , now |
| 24 | Although Lord Ridleys aggressive and forthright manner sometimes rubbed people up the wrong way it also gained him the respect of colleagues … |
| 25 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 26 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
| 27 | Despite the careful way he 'd re-sealed it , Blackbeard had spotted it . |
| 28 | ‘ Fair enough , ’ Dr Neil replied , and by the careful way he spoke he had drunk quite a lot of the whisky from the half-empty bottle . |
| 29 | The throaty way he said her name made her knees gently shake . |
| 30 | Thank you for the complimentary way you 've acted . |