Example sentences of "not [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 2 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 3 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 4 | Yeah , and his books erm falling down the way , not up the way . |
| 5 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 6 | It 's obvious he is concerned about looks , but maybe not in the way other boys are . |
| 7 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 8 | He had indeed upset her , but not in the way he thought . |
| 9 | I sat and looked at what I had got to do and in quite lateral ways determined how to do it , which was not in the way they had always done it . |
| 10 | The teacher is telling a story in Yoruba , but not in the way 1 , an Englishman , would tell it . |
| 11 | They both retained a certain affection for me but not in the way I wanted . |
| 12 | So I put the knob where you can reach it , but it 's not in the way . |
| 13 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |
| 14 | Several historians recently have suggested that it was certainly not in the way that had been intended . |
| 15 | I never really felt cared for , ever , not in the way of support . " |
| 16 | ‘ I am not in the way of trafficking with Humans , but I know of the Gruagach , ’ said the Robemaker , standing very still . |
| 17 | It thus becomes clear that the play of pronouns in the chiasmus of the narrative circuit through which the subject plays out its split existence does indeed function as an ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ in Thru , though not in the way Greimas intended . |
| 18 | " Well , not in the way you mean . |
| 19 | ‘ Not in the way you mean . |
| 20 | ‘ The second is that they 're not all beautiful — or not in the way you mean . |
| 21 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And it wo n't be resting — not in the way most actors use the term , anyway . ’ |
| 23 | No , at least not in the way you mean … |
| 24 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 25 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 26 | Not in the way you mean . |
| 27 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 28 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 29 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 30 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |