Example sentences of "[art] way i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I thought things were going to get pretty heavy for a while , but they never did escalate the way I thought they might .
2 You 're exactly the way I thought you 'd be . ’
3 He thought , this is n't the way I thought it would be .
4 There are other ways to access this world , but utilising sexuality is the way I discovered we could — perhaps — manage to do so using the human nervous system .
5 But although he was terse , he did n't rage at me the way I expected him to .
6 Er , I must apologise again for what , er the way I addressed you , but of course with all these women equality er , movements going on , I never know whether its Mr , Mrs , or Ms. Erm , now I may call on Doctor Manchago to second the motion , please .
7 ’ And that 's almost the way I planned it .
8 Now the way I figured it I had six realistic options .
9 The way I figured it ; the little guy knew how much I 'd missed him .
10 Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him .
11 The way I saw it , Neil Kinnock replied to the Budget with the look of a man who had got out to bat against Curtly Ambrose , only to discover , as he took a particularly nasty delivery in the meat-and-two-veg , that he had left his box in the pavilion .
12 Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all !
13 I have to pose in the Victorian dress and with my hair the way I told you . ’
14 ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner .
15 ‘ That 's the way I remember it .
16 Yeah well she does n't like the way I throw it .
17 That 's the way I tell them , do I tell these , that joke I told you before ?
18 ‘ And that 's the way I like it . ’
19 The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it .
20 The coffee was the way I like it , hot and bitter .
21 So that 's the way I like it .
22 Her voice was thin and cold , the way I like it After a while she cooed and cursed me into peace .
23 Well that 's tidy the way I like it .
24 ‘ Oh , Antonio , that 's the way I like it ! ’
25 Ah no , it 's not really burnt , it 's the way I like it though .
26 And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too .
27 The way I use them is slightly tongue-in-cheek .
28 I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first .
29 I also see women as much stronger than they are usually depicted , so that undoubtedly affects the way I present them in my own work .
30 ‘ That 's about the way I had it figured too .
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