Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't all that proud of meself one way and another , but there 's no cause for you to tell me . ’ |
| 2 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 3 | She must have gone to work on him , probably saying he 'd get more out of me that way . |
| 4 | Takes some of them that way . |
| 5 | and Alan says if you can still tell any of them that way . |
| 6 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |
| 7 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Ellen said , ‘ I am very fond of my husband , in spite of my western ways , and I know he has a great respect for you , Nerina ; and is thrilled about your publishing contract , and any betrayal of confidence has been totally inadvertent . |
| 9 | And in coming to terms with the negative , the so-called negative , all those images become part of my dialectical way of thinking about myself . |
| 10 | A cartwheel is one of my favourite ways to grow herbs . |
| 11 | It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows . |
| 12 | Remnants of their old ways still abound . |
| 13 | And as a reminder of their winning ways , here 's the goal that stole the match from Derby at the Baseball ground last year . |
| 14 | And this lamb needs ewe … the adoption agency that 's proud of its woolly ways . |
| 15 | The Centre for Policy Studies was only one of a series of institutions which now began to churn out papers , briefings , and a stream of serious young advisers in dark suits who saw it as their role to steer the party away from the errors of its past ways . |
| 16 | The disturbance of the balance which would occure by the immersion of the lift in the water at the foot of its inclined way may be automatically compensated by varying the effective diameters of the winding drums of the balance ropes , or by bringing auxiliary power into operation at the required moment . |
| 17 | One aspect of her present way of life was the customary silence of the phone . |
| 18 | She gave no indication to her boyfriend or to her father that she had repented of her sinful ways and I have no evidence from the mother to suggest that she had . |
| 19 | She may also have to face a serious reduction in income , which might necessitate the sale of her house and the loss of her settled way of life by a move to another neighbourhood and to a smaller home , or into yours if that is to be the arrangement you both decide upon . |
| 20 | Leapor , however , is less interested in colonial expansion and public works than in the defence of her own way of life . |
| 21 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I still feel the consequences of it one way or another . |
| 23 | ‘ I tell you Cooper would n't bust out of it that way . |
| 24 | I do n't think of it that way . |
| 25 | To think of it that way . |
| 26 | You ca n't get out of it that way ! |
| 27 | ‘ I never thought of it that way , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I never thought of it that way . ’ |
| 29 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 30 | It 's counter see you , the reason , the reason that this seems difficult to understand at first is we 're not used to thinking of it that way . |