Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 2 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 3 | ‘ It would n't actually trouble me if men thought about me in that way . |
| 4 | Miles better probably than the Manager ever anticipated ; he 's delighted they 're up there , I tell ya and you know , it 's my old club and I 'm pleased for them in that way , but I wan na see us finish off well , but pass the ball . |
| 5 | Incongruously , this was also a very happy period for me in many ways . |
| 6 | It was quite a fretful race for me in many ways . ’ |
| 7 | The press were very critical of me in many ways before that . |
| 8 | If this is so , there must be a facility for holding portions of text in parallel on screen , for altering either of them in any way desired , and for moving all or part out of one text and into the other . |
| 9 | The quiet but bitter resignation of the vast majority was expressed to Yakovlev by one of them in this way : ‘ A peasant is a sheep , and whoever wants his wool fleeces him . |
| 10 | Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment . |
| 11 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 12 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 13 | Marshall 's own self-analysis mirrors Barrington 's of him in many ways . |
| 14 | Mr Essex trained at Dartington College of Arts , a progressive place of the 60s which centred on music , art and drama and which , he says , proved to be the making of him in many ways . |
| 15 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , he felt annoyed at Eleanor for trying to wring sympathy out of him in this way . |
| 17 | I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way . |
| 18 | In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) . |
| 19 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 20 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 21 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 22 | I often fear for you in many ways , quite unreasonably it may be . |
| 23 | Divide the lines between you in any way which you think adds to the drama and suspense . |
| 24 | Because he , he almost has this personal sort of he sort of a personal vendetta against them in some ways |
| 25 | I 'm not always very good at saying what I mean , except at work , that is ; I 've been to Europe and the States but never to Nineveh and Distant Ophir ; I do n't have much time — literally — for the arts , though I 'm not against them in any way , you understand ( sometimes there 's a nice concert on the car radio ; like most people I read a book or two on holiday ) ; and I do n't give much of a thought to my clothes beyond looking smart at work and feeling comfortable when I get home . |
| 26 | ‘ She was … a lot like you in some ways , ’ he said at last , admitting it . |
| 27 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ But I did n't hold it against her in any way . ’ |
| 29 | The dispute had also moved against us in another way . |
| 30 | I remember a story from my student days which has stuck with me in this way ever since . |