Example sentences of "[art] [adj] way i can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the simplest way I can describe it . |
| 2 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 3 | That 's the only way I can explain my behaviour . |
| 4 | That 's the only way I can hope to fight back and keep my job . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said at last , ‘ I 'll go along with this crazy scheme — only because it 's the only way I can hope to convince you that you 're wrong , totally wrong . |
| 6 | I 'm not a yeller , but the only way I can handle him if he gets like that is , I yell back . |
| 7 | The only way I can think of getting out is to take my life , but if I did , I 'd have to take my little girls with me . |
| 8 | It 's the only way I can think of to explain the coincidences in the tales you 've told me . |
| 9 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 10 | I know lots of people ca n't understand that , one of which is my accountant , but I feel I must put something back , it 's the only way I can feel comfortable about all the money I 've made . ’ |
| 11 | When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’ |
| 12 | I want to help him and the only way I can do that is try and find out who really killed her . |
| 13 | I like to know the farmers and their landscape — it 's the only way I can paint Wales . ’ |
| 14 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 15 | Since it is inevitable , I wish I could come to terms with it , but I find the only way I can cope at present is to avoid thinking about it . |
| 16 | I 've seen enough violence in my life to know the only way I can deal it out is in sudden fast dollops — a well-aimed kick or punch , a gun if I have to . |
| 17 | This is the way I know , and it is the only way I can write about but there are a hundred other ways to release and a hundred other ways for every intellect . |
| 18 | The only way I can remember it , that way round . |
| 19 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 21 | The only way I can describe this is to suggest that a normal 6ft putt on an average ‘ club green ’ would run 15ft for the players at the Masters this week . |
| 22 | Older , of course , and more grown up is the only way I can describe it . ’ |
| 23 | After only a day testing the new system , on and off road , around the Wiltshire countryside , floating like a butterfly is the only way I can describe the ride . |
| 24 | ‘ Just talking to myself , it 's the only way I can get any sensible conversation round here . ’ |
| 25 | The only way I can get across is to jump down on to the track again . |
| 26 | Because there is this impasse between what the officers wanted to do and what the residents find acceptable the only way I can get this matter resolved is for the council to refer the possible closure to the committee so that the committee can consider all the facts er in the light of the advice of the officers erm and I therefore beg to move this . |
| 27 | I want a shot at the world title and the only way I can get it , is to beat Frank on Saturday night and that 's what I 'm here for . |
| 28 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 29 | If that 's the only way I can persuade you . |
| 30 | That 's the only way I can see it . |