Example sentences of "my way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone , ’ said Inspector Milsom meaningfully , ‘ seems to have been altogether too careful to my way of thinking . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , sorry — my way of talking . |
| 3 | ‘ She was having trouble with a piece of chewing gum and it was my way of saying thank you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is my way of memorialising my beloved son 's life . |
| 6 | That 's not my way of doing it . |
| 7 | What changed my way of approaching things ? |
| 8 | But it is my way of getting out of a sticky situation . |
| 9 | Never did anything but harm to my way of thinking , ’ says George Kittlemann , a rancher who agrees to explain the ‘ for sale ’ sign posted by his fence . |
| 10 | Once he was wealthy enough , he began taking time out each winter to fulfil personal projects , ‘ It 's my way of putting something of myself into my work . |
| 11 | I 've bought Smiths records but they have never altered my way of thinking . |
| 12 | And my goal was to bring him around to my way of thinking ; there 's no question that I stopped fooling around when he agreed with me . |
| 13 | We are going back to 1978 , maybe I was a bit vain and thought the world revolved around me , but it was my way of motivating myself , and it worked with Archie Gemmill , every time I played him after that I kicked him up in the air . ’ |
| 14 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 15 | Already , in my childhood , this had become my way of studying animals . |
| 16 | It is my way of showing my appreciation for their support , and it comes from the heart . |
| 17 | And my reaction to this fear , my way of combating it , was to escape into a world of no fear , a world where there were complete men , good-looking , strong , active , a world of erotic fearlessness where the whole man had free rein , the whole man whom I was convinced I would not or could not become . |
| 18 | Different people write songs differently , and that 's my way of writing . ’ |
| 19 | Here is my way of making ‘ cut and sew ’ buttonholes , I find it especially useful on difficult yarns , for example , bouclés . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's my way of relaxing . ’ |
| 21 | JB : My background , living in the north country with rugged landscapes , had a great influence on my way of thinking and working . |
| 22 | ‘ My way of life/Is fallen into the sere , the yellow leaf' , says Macbeth ; ‘ why do you start , and seem to fear/Things that do sound so fair ? ’ asks Banquo ; ‘ I see thee still ’ , says Macbeth to the imaginary dagger , ‘ And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood , /Which was not so before . ’ |
| 23 | Another time-saving tip is my way of threading the tension arm assembly . |
| 24 | To my way of thinking , penguins are superb examples of evolution fitting out a bird to make the best use of its environment — the only potential problem being man . |
| 25 | I think it was a kind of defence mechanism , my way of warding off those waves of sadness . |
| 26 | To speak of my way of being , or what it is like to be me , seems to be to speak of what distinguishes my conscious life from the conscious lives of others . |
| 27 | I knew what they had in mind , they knew my way of working , which cut down enormously on the number of meetings we needed to plan shows out . |
| 28 | ‘ To my way of thinking , ’ said an officer of wide experience , ‘ this is just paper — it 's only figures on paper , this is — to prevent the general public being able to prosecute the authority if a sewage works has the odd bad sample . ’ |
| 29 | The links that have developed in networking with the many voluntary groups that operate in the areas and the recognition of the individuals right to self-esteem and to develop an expertise in relation to living and functioning in their many roles , has changed my way of working with people — probably forever . |
| 30 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |