Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And make sure that you give it the way they want . |
| 2 | Traditionally , every spring , a campaign is launched , but this year we must hold a special campaign to ensure that everybody knows what the way ahead will be . |
| 3 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 4 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 5 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 6 | If you spell it the way it is pronounced you 'll |
| 7 | Erm , but bear in mind you know , this works best if you work it the way that you want to work it . |
| 8 | If you do it the way Bill says . |
| 9 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 10 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 11 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 12 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ There always seems so much to do — but they like everything the way it 's always been . |
| 14 | But it does please me that we fight back , I like that , but it displeases me the way we sort of go under a little bit . |
| 15 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |
| 16 | When you put it the way you put it , I suppose I should have guessed that you had guessed . |
| 17 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |