Example sentences of "[pron] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will see it my way . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 3 | But that has always been my way , he wrote . |
| 4 | She caught me on my way to the back door . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone , ’ said Inspector Milsom meaningfully , ‘ seems to have been altogether too careful to my way of thinking . ’ |
| 6 | I looked at them , they looked at me , and I turned and hurriedly made my way downstairs . |
| 7 | It was my desire to be active , to earn my way in life , which encouraged me into these new fields , that is it was a positive impulse which drove me on . |
| 8 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 9 | ‘ OK baby , let's roll , ’ I said , and with a roar and a lurch , I was on my way . |
| 10 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 11 | Soon I was round the corner again and on my way back to the station . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , sorry — my way of talking . |
| 13 | I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line . |
| 14 | In no time at all it jerked forward , and there I was , on my way . |
| 15 | ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you . |
| 16 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 17 | I started on my way to the West End . |
| 18 | Anyway , at shortly before five I made my way to the forecourt of the RA . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I 'll start on my way north . ’ |
| 20 | Oh , pretty woman , walk my way ! |
| 21 | Moreover , Lorca influenced Leonard 's world-view too ; his ‘ transcendental and far-reaching ’ ideas about life touched him : ‘ Lorca changed my way of being and thinking radically , ’ he told a Spanish journalist . |
| 22 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 23 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 24 | I made my way home each night with at least some notion of hope and plans for a new assault on Wilde . |
| 25 | I would go out of my way to crunch on crisp , mustardy jellyfish ; an oily , tissuey-textured sea-slug , slipped into a congee of boiled rice , was my idea of a hearty breakfast ; and the pig , from the brains to the balls ( of the feet ) seemed like a gourmet 's theme-park . |
| 26 | On my way to the District and Circle platform I pass a notice stating that an escalator is out of service . |
| 27 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 28 | On my way to an engagement in Bracknell . |
| 29 | ‘ I knitted my way across the Atlantic , ’ he reveals . |
| 30 | He is perfectly earnest when he says , ‘ I feel that the people who run the big national companies are in my way . |