Example sentences of "way they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no way they would fit my record player . |
| 2 | He knew that he was now powerless to influence the way they would vote . |
| 3 | Moreover , some 70% of the public disapproved of the tax , with 50% considering it the decisive issue in determining the way they would vote . |
| 4 | One of the things I did n't like too much was the terrific hullabaloo the women made about menstruation , the way they would sit sighing in a corner and all the other women would make a fuss over them . |
| 5 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 6 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 7 | That way they would disappear without trace . |
| 8 | It was , they assessed , about forty-five miles to Gilsland by the way they would go . |
| 9 | He was watching them to see which way they would go . |
| 10 | But the , I ring up local government offices , and that 's the way they would speak to me , and immediately I say to myself , ‘ Christ , that would be the worst person to be interviewed on local radio . ’ |
| 11 | Only when they dropped or rattled something , the startled way they would look towards Moran , did the nervous tension of what it took to glide about so silently show . |
| 12 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 13 | That way they would get excellent pictures of Mrs Thatcher as she moved through the crowd . |
| 14 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 15 | But I suppose in a way they would have then been contemplating selling their own house and getting somewhere else before in fact |
| 16 | There 's no way they would touch it at all . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , let's look at the way they would see it . |
| 18 | They were n't sure if they would find Rose there at all or what way they would find her if they did . |
| 19 | This way they would find out if there were any quirks in the aircraft that could be ironed out before Dick strapped-in for the ride that would be his first solo . |
| 20 | He came closer , and she felt herself begin to melt , anticipating the tenderness of his lips , the way they would harden as excitement took hold of them both , the way she would step into his arms and surrender to his embrace . |
| 21 | For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women . |
| 22 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 23 | In this way they may indicate a preference as to which particular difficulty will be addressed first . |
| 24 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 25 | We should be able to go into the big houses and let the gentry know that we are honest , that 's the only way they 'll give us their business . |
| 26 | Let them see you and your company as you are : in that way they 'll believe in you and your people . |
| 27 | They 're planning to turn their ground into an all-seater stadium when they can find a three-piece cheap suite enough — the only way they 'll raise the money is to turn their pitch over to growing cabbages and start a fruit-and-veg. stall on Birmingham market selling rotten fruit ! |
| 28 | There 's no way they 'll get US venture capital backing unless they move to the US . |
| 29 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 30 | And then perhaps the next u erm lot that came , perhaps you 'd get six to a unit , so you had twelve baskets , That 's the way they used to work them . |