Example sentences of "way [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I do n't always feel up to … the way I used to . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is n't necessary to explain things in the way I used to . |
| 3 | The way we used to ! ’ |
| 4 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |
| 5 | the way we used to . |
| 6 | From our union we gave of ourselves in what way we could to those who sought or needed our support . |
| 7 | As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be . |
| 8 | While songs like ‘ Sugar Mamma ’ may not be especially wired the way they used to be , and he no longer sings about getting his sugar ‘ three times a day ’ , John Lee is still alright . |
| 9 | Do they ever hold anything down like the way they used to children 's parties at Christmas and , and ? |
| 10 | For a moment he entertained the hope that he might be allowed to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he used to , or even ‘ Mummy ’ , as she always called herself when speaking to other people . |
| 11 | He did n't enjoy women the way he used to , but killing them was different . |
| 12 | Was he doomed to spend the rest of his working life watching babes in arms wheeling and dealing the way he used to ? |
| 13 | He hardly ever stays to talk the way he used to . |
| 14 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 15 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 17 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 18 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 20 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 22 | the way it used to be ? |
| 23 | ‘ That is the way it used to be . ’ |