Example sentences of "[adj] way i " in BNC.

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1 However , now we have remade that table top and re-finished it in a different way I am much more certain about what had , until now , been an instinctive feeling .
2 People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure .
3 In a funny way I knew I was going to need treatment .
4 When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it .
5 It would be worth it , if it put an end to such irritations as the inconvenient way I 'd suddenly find myself visualising you when I was with other women …
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’
10 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 ’ .
11 Goes back a long way I 'm afraid .
12 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 … ’
13 I have decided to continue submitting my reports to you in the informal way I settled upon initially …
14 You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean .
15 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 .
16 In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through .
17 Well they crofted in small way I suppose , and went the fishing .
18 The only way I could show that in my opinion they were absolutely wrong was to start an action for libel . ’
19 ‘ The only way I could organise my time , ’ he explains .
20 The only way I knew I had reached the summit was when I started downhill again .
21 ‘ 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 .
22 Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability .
23 ‘ The only way I ever look at myself is through other people 's eyes .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 That 's the only way I do it . ’
27 However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards .
28 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 . ’
29 The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else .
30 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 … ’
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