8.79 saying how something is done

If you simply want to talk about someone's behaviour or the way something is done, you use 'like', 'as', 'the way', 'in a way', or 'in the way'.

• Is she often rude and cross like she's been this last month?
• I don't understand why he behaves as he does.
• I was never allowed to do things the way I wanted to do them.
• He was looking at her in a way she did not recognise.
• We have to make it work in the way that we want it to.