Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 3 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 4 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 5 | I was just home from Germany and he asked me the way . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 7 | You certainly did n't seem to like me the way I was ! ’ |
| 8 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 9 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Touch me the way you touch Ryan . ’ |
| 11 | I want to know you the way no man has ever known a woman before . ’ |
| 12 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 13 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 14 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 15 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 16 | It had taken them almost two hundred and fifty of Quiss 's " days " to discover what the way out was . |
| 17 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then get two children and show them the way to cut the rings down the middle . |
| 20 | They will usually think it impossible and you then show them the way to do it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Show me the way to go home ’ bawled the four-year-old as she flew back to Britain five months after Pittsburgh surgeons saved her life with a 16-hour liver and bowel swop . |
| 23 | Then the cheeky four-year-old showed off by singing her favourite song — the drinker 's ditty Show Me The Way To Go Home . |
| 24 | SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME ! |
| 25 | McKechnie lists specifically food , drink , sex , attractive clothing ; labour-saving machines and mechanical transport ; holidays and leisure activities ; so called ‘ high ’ culture — music , art , literature , etc. — and so called ‘ pop ’ culture — in which he includes the singing of old Tin Pan Alley songs , such as ‘ Show Me the Way to Go Home ’ , in public houses run by the big breweries . |
| 26 | ‘ Now show me the way . ’ |
| 27 | The brave four-year-old beamed as she sang ‘ Show Me The Way To Go Home ’ . |
| 28 | Whatever our conscious reasons ( ’ No , I want to remember him/her the way he/she was ' or ‘ Not in front of the children ’ ) , a dead body is not considered to be spectacle for display in Britain , and the rationale which dictates it can sometimes disguise feelings of embarrassment that such a thing could occur in our death-defying , well-regulated households . |
| 29 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 30 | Could you show me the way out ? ’ |