Example sentences of "[adj] way i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 2 | In a funny way I knew I was going to need treatment . |
| 3 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 4 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 5 | Without attempting here to formulate such a scheme in any comprehensive way I propose to consider some of the important elements which would enter into it . |
| 6 | I sympathize because in my little way I grieve too , but over the people in my life I have allowed to die without ever having shown them any particular affection . |
| 7 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 8 | Dear Prime Minister , In spite of the most helpful representations and advice from my staff , I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … ’ |
| 9 | I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially … |
| 10 | You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean . |
| 11 | In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through . |
| 12 | Well they crofted in small way I suppose , and went the fishing . |
| 13 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 14 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 15 | That 's the only way I get through to you sometimes . |
| 16 | The only way I knew I had reached the summit was when I started downhill again . |
| 17 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 18 | At the time , it was the only way I knew how to deal with it . |
| 19 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 20 | That 's the only way I 've ever found to describe it . |
| 21 | But it 's the only way I know how to sing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to . |
| 23 | " It 's the only way I know . " |
| 24 | ‘ I mean that , when the client suggested giving our sales force a taste of the product they were selling , I had to put it all together at ultra-short notice — and the only way I managed to get my people to drop everything and come was by stressing how much I relied on each of them individually . |
| 25 | So the only way I seemed to be able to keep Arthur was to become dependent on him . ’ |
| 26 | The only way I like , salt and vinegar . |
| 27 | The only way I like salt and vinegar . |
| 28 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 29 | Certainly , the only go , the only way I run a shift , the way she runs checkouts , is erm , by going , you , it 's the same thing every day , you 've got to run through everything on the same point order , because you know , you 've been doing it , it 's got to be done at the same time , like bread the last lot 's got to be on by four . |
| 30 | The only way I see how do you |