Example sentences of "way [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 2 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 3 | I , I just put it on his dinner , cos there 's no way that I squirt it in his mouth , I 'd probably choke him . |
| 4 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 5 | Erm , but in fact , the way that I use it er , would not be the way that Andy uses it , the way that Andy uses it would not be the way that Martin uses it , it does not necessarily mean that any of us are wrong . |
| 6 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 7 | Something about the words that I use , and the way that I deliver them , something about it strikes a low chord in his guts . |
| 8 | So alien was it to see Mary Joe playing that way that I suspect she was injured and an android had been substituted , and wrongly programmed . |
| 9 | Erm , I know that the way that I do it every time |
| 10 | These are the ones I am particularly anxious about at the moment , erm , now I 've put down four different headings on this particular way that I think we could help , erm , and hopefully , if there 's two hundred perhaps you 'd tell me whether there 's two hundred thousand is aimed at perhaps some of it , in , in this direction or not , I do n't know ? |
| 11 | I says er , I want to take charge , and I 'll do it the way that I think it should be done . |
| 12 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 13 | ‘ I love you in a very special way and I knew you would understand . |
| 14 | Seeing blocky and uninteresting sprites slowly hacking each other into oblivion does n't thrill me in any big way and I doubt it would excite anyone else . |
| 15 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 16 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 17 | I suppose it was in a way because I knew she did n't really love me . |
| 18 | I decided to come this way because I wanted you to see the courtyard by moonlight . ’ |
| 19 | Quite happy for you to stay out the way while I do it . |
| 20 | ‘ I have positively done nothing but dream of the System of no Property every step of the Way since I left you , ’ he wrote back to Oxford on 13 July . |
| 21 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 22 | I fled up to the tree-house for my knitting but a branch gave way as I grabbed it and I was pitched into the river . |
| 23 | Another friend , ‘ E ’ , reacted in a different way when I told her . |
| 24 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |
| 25 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |