Example sentences of "their [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 2 | We made it a condition that , as far as possible , teachers and pupils should be observed working in their usual way . |
| 3 | It did not occur to us that ‘ working in their usual way ’ might prove to be so different from what we were expecting that work on the project would be brought virtually to a standstill . |
| 4 | Although prejudice lessened as time went on , there would always be those who resented these foreigners and their strange ways , and who would be ready to point a finger . |
| 5 | He did n't come that day , or the next , and a host of mocking little phrases found their insidious way into her mind . |
| 6 | There is a universal sense of happiness and gentleness among the Balinese people , and their polite ways and deference are natural and unaffected . |
| 7 | They made their stooping way up and down the rows of tomato plants . |
| 8 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 9 | For a while peace , work , food , clothing and shelter were all that most people hankered after , and the basic rebuilding of the economy and their shattered way of life took some two decades . |
| 10 | This means , of course , that the kind of contradiction I mentioned earlier is rarely discovered by the average fundamentalist because their one-dimensional way of tackling the text , a few verses at a time , will not lead them to make these uncomfortable and , I think , liberating discoveries . |
| 11 | It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone . |
| 12 | She was used to the heckling and aggressive tones which other boys she knew adopted as their normal way of speaking . |
| 13 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 14 | And then they 'll , they 'll completely return to their normal way on Monday morning . |
| 15 | ( Sliding back momentarily into their old way of talking to put John at ease . ) |
| 16 | By the time they make up their mind , the Chinese will probably be back to their old ways . ’ |
| 17 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 18 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 19 | The period of time just after you have attained all your goals is something of a danger period ; this is when many dieters lapse back into their old ways . |
| 20 | Remnants of their old ways still abound . |
| 21 | These Savage Orcs were happy to continue in their old ways , using metal weapons and armour on occasions when they could steal or trade it , but on the whole sticking to their ancient traditions . |
| 22 | And , worst of all , monetary policy has been controlled by a central banker who does not believe in shock therapy , and who has inflated the money supply to allow companies to continue in their old ways . |
| 23 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 24 | Others have slipped back to their old ways . |
| 25 | There was anger among them , and pity , for each in their different way had seen suffering and did not wish to see it again . |
| 26 | Both Kenneth and Henry , on the stage or battlefield and off it , talk their different ways to triumph . |
| 27 | He and Sessions , in their different ways , have found entertaining , imaginative substitutes , but , elsewhere , you 're all too aware of what 's missing . |
| 28 | The family worried about it in their different ways . |
| 29 | The girls in their different ways wanted to gather their father and the whole , true , heartbreaking day into their arms . |
| 30 | But here at Sophia Gardens , a nap hand of British girls have in their different ways been doing their best to tell us something about the game they play … and offering a few hints of hope for the future . |