Example sentences of "way that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 2 | The stimulus for these changes has been a combination of my own experiences of doing mathematics and the discovery that my pupils could do mathematics in ways that I had not appreciated before . |
| 3 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 4 | My comments are not meant to seek to prescribe to others how they should go about things , nor are they written in the belief that the ways that I have so painfully worked upon are necessarily the best , or the only ways of doing things . |
| 5 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 6 | If we can learn to be programmers _ indeed we already are — but if we can learn to instruct the computer , then we 'll retain our dignity and our responsibility in matters rather than really abdicating it in ways that I do n't myself favour . |
| 7 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 8 | I remind her that , following President Yeltsin 's recent visit and the welcome changes in connection with what is a hugely large arsenal of nuclear weapons , the top priority of proliferation at present is to ensure that we take action in the ways that I described in my answer . |
| 9 | You paying me in 'and , and Dennis is paying me in 'and and I 'll a er , thousand pound a week , the way that I keep getting these job offers . |
| 10 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 11 | It 's it 's a question of priorities , is n't it , the , perhaps people feel the way that I dress is not important , the work that I do and the discoveries that I make , those are the important things . |
| 12 | the way that I deserve . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 15 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 16 | First of all , it might be argued that there is no reason why the man should treat the woman , in fantasy , in the way that I 've described . |
| 17 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
| 18 | Whether it 's a will whether it 's an intestacy the survivor takes because the survivor can deal with it , in the way that I 've described . |
| 19 | So I must check that the figures I 've already given you , that 's the way that I 've done it . |
| 20 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 21 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 22 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 23 | I was much more at peace with myself and more accepting of the way that I looked . |
| 24 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 25 | Using positive phrases , such as ‘ I really like … , ’ rather than negative lines like ‘ you do n't do it the way that I like … , ’ will improve your chance of having a productive dialogue . |
| 26 | Those who were nervous and struggling with their own feelings did not want to expose their gayness in the way that I had done . |
| 27 | I dislike them in the way that I dislike Pre-Raphaelite things . |
| 28 | Wilson had to trot briskly , to keep up with his wife ; and he trotted responsibly , because there was no doubt that he was proud of his charge — tall and upright as a Grenadier Guard as she was , and issuing instructions in the way that I imagine a Grenadier might , so that when they were at home her voice would sometimes float right up the road and into our garden , ‘ Wilson ! |
| 29 | In the same way that I doubt your power of judgement . |
| 30 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |