Example sentences of "the way [pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can change the way we let our past experiences affect us now , so that we are better equipped to handle the impact on us of all kinds of pressure which would otherwise unsettle and upset as time goes on . |
| 2 | Instead , all extrapolations should be , and indeed usually are , considered to be working hypotheses that guide the way we study our own brains . |
| 3 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 4 | They 'd probably be appalled by the way we view our own material , ’ says Honest John . |
| 5 | Seeing as the best thing about Levitation is the way they challenge his previous band 's liabilities , it 's a shame Tel 's still trying to master his own voice , but there 's still time before they release their debut single . |
| 6 | This may be the way they soothe their young . |
| 7 | I really like that about cats — the way they keep themselves clean . |
| 8 | On the way they passed their first wedding anniversary during this extended honeymoon and received presents of grapefruit , chocolate , duck eggs , paw-paws and a nautilus shell from people they stayed with in remote spots . |
| 9 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 10 | It tickles me the way they call it portable and you can hardly lift it . |
| 11 | This should take into account a wide variety of factors , their interests and aptitudes , their feelings , their relationships with others , their strengths and weaknesses , their medical condition , their past life , the effect of significant life events , and the way they view their future prospects . |
| 12 | This does not mean , however , that in the way they run themselves Japanese firms are going to become like American and British ones . |
| 13 | Many step-parents feel guilty for not loving their step-children in the way they do their own . |
| 14 | But the real key to the discounters ' success is the way they manage their day-to-day business . |
| 15 | I 'd called it that all my life so why should they try to force me to change the way I speak my own language ? |
| 16 | ‘ It berates me for the way I mistreated it last night . ’ |
| 17 | He does n't approve of the way I spend my free time . |
| 18 | The first one , I mean , er , this is not casting the stone , but this is the way I see 'em all . |
| 19 | Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns . |
| 20 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 21 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 22 | I liked the way he used his entire body . |
| 23 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 24 | On the way he maintained his cold silence and they were both aware of Ana and Mitch who talked endlessly . |
| 25 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 26 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 27 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 28 | The way he proffers his open hand before this difficult feat of balance draws attention to the vital part to be played by all heroes in classical ballet . |
| 29 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 30 | The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry . |