Example sentences of "way i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 3 | ‘ And in certain ways I 've been very lucky . |
| 4 | In some ways I envy what has happened to Paul Downton who , while he was with Middlesex , spent a couple of winters with James Capel , the City stockbrokers . |
| 5 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 6 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 7 | Well erm in some ways I mean what we 're doing in , in social say , most of that you can pick up out of the textbook where it 's discussed in , in rather , slightly more detail and I stick in , you know , different kinds of examples and things like that to try and |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And because in many ways I identified with her . |
| 10 | in some ways I bet ! |
| 11 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 12 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 15 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 16 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 17 | They 'll be exercised in other ways I imagine will they ? |
| 18 | She did n't really help me in the ways I needed |
| 19 | She did n't really help me in the ways I needed , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Further comment relating to the method included the ‘ … spotty , speckled effect — which in some ways I find not particularly satisfactory … a little difficult to enjoy ’ , and the paint which is sometimes ‘ dragged on ’ but also often ‘ dragged and spread in such a way that there 's some sort of movement ’ . |
| 21 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 22 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 23 | In some ways I feel like a soldier in a front-line . |
| 24 | ‘ In some ways I feel you are so lucky , Lavinia , to have kept Araminta by you all these years . ’ |
| 25 | In fact in some ways I feel I almost got more out of appraising Kevin and Bill than I did out of Alan appraising |
| 26 | I came to England — Ipswich — to study for the social workers ' qualification , a CQSW in Community Work , believing that I could work with women in the ways I wanted , provided I had the necessary qualifications . |
| 27 | In some ways I think the one in the hardest position was Patsy 's husband , but he behaved as though it were the most natural thing in the world . |
| 28 | ‘ In many ways I think Prince Charles is a natural bachelor but I ca n't believe that the princess , who is now 31 , will be happy to spend the rest of her life on her own . |
| 29 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 30 | But in many ways I think I 'm okay . |