Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 2 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 3 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing , ’ she said caustically , ‘ that you could do that would make me in any way feel good . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Julius does n't affect me in any way . |
| 6 | ‘ To treat them in this way is disgraceful . ’ |
| 7 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 8 | I wo n't let you hustle me in this way . |
| 9 | There was also no lack of contacts , who , starved of literature , were exhilarated to be able to talk about Eliot : a Captain Richardson , whom I met in Eritrea , engaged to a charming Italian , proved one of those contacts whom the war brought together and separated , reminding me in some ways of the young Eliot and Jean Verdenal . |
| 10 | ‘ Roman , I have never imagined you would hurt me in any way ! |
| 11 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 12 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 13 | Really , Sophie , do n't you trust me in any way at all ? |
| 14 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 15 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 16 | When you have got the idea of how to tighten them in this way , you can do the exercise anywhere . |
| 17 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 18 | Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer . |
| 19 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |
| 20 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 21 | Around the same time , I entered this competition — it was a kind of beauty competition , although it did n't describe itself in that way . |
| 22 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 23 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 24 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 25 | All personnel , military and civil , without distinction of rank will assist him in any way he sees fit . |
| 26 | And the need for audience contact I found particularly important because if you get feedback from the audience looking them in the eye involving them then you 're able to know how your talk is progressing and whether you need to modify it in any way to be able to maintain the audience 's interest . |
| 27 | And you you you have to sort of attack it in that way . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way . |
| 29 | Neither of them seems to find it in any way remarkable . |
| 30 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |