Example sentences of "the way [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she did not like the way his eye followed a pretty girl , nor the way theirs could sometimes follow him . |
| 2 | It would to find altruism in the way we could find but social cooperation or self-sacrifice or altruism could evolve by natural selection . |
| 3 | Erm if that 's sounds too much , th the way we could make it cheaper it erm not to have erm the interlinking chains . |
| 4 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 5 | Nothing captures this profound relationship like Leonard 's poem , ‘ Last Dance At The Four Penny ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , pp 73 ) , which perfectly catches the way they could cock a snook at the establishment , scholarly and religious : |
| 6 | It had something to do with order , she decided ; Joyce mistrusted books for their content , but liked the way they could be marshalled . |
| 7 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 8 | Only half of the libraries that returned questionnaires could say that they had considered how automation would affect the way they could continue to contribute information about holdings to the SUC . |
| 9 | I could talk to you the way I could n't talk to anyone else . |
| 10 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I 've actually I tried to persuade a colleague of mine that I could quite easily sexually harass a male student of mine , and the reason I could do that , or the way I could do that , is because I have power over him . |
| 12 | Full-back Wadsworth 's ‘ remarkable accuracy ’ turned defence immediately to attack by the way he could ‘ take the ball from an opposing forward and send it to the forward he thinks will make the best use of the pass ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 13 | I also admired the way he could peel an apple with the skin in one piece , coiled like a spring . |
| 14 | He made colleagues of similar rank jealous for the way he could generate publicity . |
| 15 | I should have known from the way he could n't finish off this simple word that , a few days later , they would part . |
| 16 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 17 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 18 | Funny little things like the way he could find a mental case to confess to every gangland killing , and the number of prisoners who had sudden heart attacks while he was questioning them . |
| 19 | It sounded gauche , and she felt a prick of resentment , hating the way he could reduce her to this humiliating state of uncertainty . |
| 20 | In desperation he lifted her bodily off the ground so that she was helplessly pinned against his solid frame , and she discovered to her horror that hating him did n't in any way negate the way he could make her feel . |
| 21 | You see , he ca n't get rid of me — not the way he could get rid of any normal wife . |
| 22 | It was appalling the way he could affect her like this . |
| 23 | It was n't fair , not a bit , the way he could side-step and outmanoeuvre her with such ease . |
| 24 | He was a good-looking man with his jet-black hair and intimidating jawline , but she had encountered any number far more handsome , yet none had stirred her the way he could with a single glance from those incredible eyes . |
| 25 | Call it developing female insight , but SHe somehow knew Malamute was a man with a secret , a man in disguise , and also a man who knew the way SHe could turn this whole mess into an advantage . |
| 26 | Colin Thubron , traveller and award-winning travel writer , was influenced by Freya Stark 's style : ‘ I was absolutely fascinated by the way she could make certain words shine . ’ |
| 27 | She loved the way she could jump much higher than on the Earth . |
| 28 | Across the way she could just glimpse the motorspeeder . |
| 29 | Damn , he sounded too shirty , but he did n't like the way she could get under his skin . |
| 30 | She felt some obligation to keep the conversation going ; it was impossible to walk round in silence the way she could have done with Hugh . |