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That's no way to talk to your mother! We have ways of making you talk. Is that any way to treat a lady?! It's the wrong way to deal with the problem
He has such a pleasant way about him. Lucinda certainly has a way with children and dogs. You city people may not approve of our down-to-earth country ways
Show me the way to go home. The way to the village lies through dark woods
You've come a long way since we last met
We made our way to the front of the crowd. Who has the right of way at the crossing? The tide was too strong for us to get any way on
In certain ways, you remind me of Attila the Hun
When you hear a siren, drive to the side and give way. Make way for the Lord High Executioner!
She prefers the prissy 'in a family way' to the straightforward 'pregnant' and the vulgar 'have a bun in the oven'. I saw Luke yesterday and he was really in a bad way
By the way, have I told you how beautiful you look tonight?
Once under way, it takes the ship three days to make the crossing. Plans are under way to reclaim the slum area for a park
by way of
We drove from London to Oxford by way of Reading
Richard is by way of being an expert on eccentric behaviour
give way
The cable gave way, causing the bridge to collapse
The trouble is that they both think they are in the right and neither will give way
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