Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] way i " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |
| 2 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the best way I know to sort out problems , and it looks as if you and I certainly need to have our minds distracted ! |
| 4 | Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Older , of course , and more grown up is the only way I can describe it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're saying that rape is the only way I 'm going to make you mine ? ’ he questioned , and , to make her treacherous body betray her , he planted a spine-thrilling kiss on the side of her throat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That 's the only way I do it . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | But it 's the only way I know how to sing . ’ |
| 13 | That 's the only way I 'd have it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Just talking to myself , it 's the only way I can get any sensible conversation round here . ’ |
| 15 | I like to know the farmers and their landscape — it 's the only way I can paint Wales . ’ |
| 16 | " It 's the only way I know . " |
| 17 | That 's the only way I 've ever found to describe it . |
| 18 | That 's the only way I can see it . |
| 19 | That 's the only way I can explain my behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's the only way I 'm going to get a new collection ready ! ’ |
| 21 | It 's the only way I can think of to explain the coincidences in the tales you 've told me . |
| 22 | That 's the only way I can hope to fight back and keep my job . ’ |
| 23 | And that 's the only way I can see a way through this , thinking okay they 've got this ideology , they 've tried it twice and it still has n't worked . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's the only way I 'd consider . |
| 27 | If that 's the only way I can persuade you . |
| 28 | That 's the only way I would learn a tune , I could n't sight-read the |
| 29 | Well I was impressed by the erm the Maxwell erm peoples comments that the funds should be clearly marked pension fund accounts and and that er there would be regulations that this money could n't be transferred without some the regulator again or somebody making er agreeing to the transaction , but I erm fully understand that would be erm very time-consuming , but er that 's the only way I can see that , that the fund should be clearly marked that they 're pension fund and should n't be transferred without some some authority agreeing to it . |
| 30 | . Yeah that 's the only way I can see it trying to use those and have them back on Friday . . |