Example sentences of "[verb] one way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never shows the slightest bit of doubt or anxiety , especially before a battle , when he knows he can win one way or another . |
| 2 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 3 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
| 4 | His duty done — that Jarvis would never know one way or the other made no difference in Jasper 's estimation — he went back on to the landing which by now was in darkness . |
| 5 | He 'd made the assumption that Sanchez would n't know one way or the other . |
| 6 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 7 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the FA said they would investigate any complaints , and added : ‘ We shall look at what happens closely before we say one way or the other whether this would be allowed or not . ’ |
| 9 | You have a right to know one way or the other . |
| 10 | In fact , to discuss the reason why his work is the exception rather than the rule in the category of traditional adventure is to find one way to define that category . |
| 11 | It was hard to tell what the tide was doing , for I could n't see the shore , but each time the anchor held the dinghy would be carried one way or the other to the extent of her scope . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , I really ca n't see that it matters one way or the other what I think , ’ Alison said . |
| 13 | At the As-Salih Negm Ad-din madrasa and mausoleum urgent action is needed to save the minaret , which has cracked and is sloping one way , while the supporting timber lintel slopes the other . |
| 14 | ‘ Something has to be resolved one way or the other , ’ Cabochon said , expending a vast amount of mental energy mustering concern for the group . |
| 15 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 16 | Secondly , it means that the person who has been arrested under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 by a constable without warrant has the matter resolved one way or the other within 24 hours , or sooner if practicable , subject to the exceptions of Christmas Day , Good Friday and Sundays , and the prosecution , if they wish a remand in custody or the imposition of more stringent conditions , must make sure that they have within that time period sufficient material to place before the justice to enable the justice to form one of the opinions set out in section 7(5) . |
| 17 | I would urge the panel to make a decision which enables us to go down a road of logical decision making to get the issue resolved one way or the other . |
| 18 | The edge-enhanced Leningrad MSS image ( figure 5.14 ) illustrates one way in which a particular component of the image ( the boundaries or edges ) are amplified . |
| 19 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 20 | Inner journeys also provide one way of accessing our higher consciousness , and our unseen friends . |
| 21 | The kind of inferences that are called implicatures are always of this special intended kind , and the theory of implicature sketches one way in which such inferences , of a non-conventional sort , can be conveyed while meeting the criterion of communicated messages sketched in Grice 's theory of meaning-nn . |
| 22 | But by the time Taylor approaches the return tie with Norway on June 2 , England 's participation in the World Cup finals in 1994 is sure to be virtually decided one way or the other . |
| 23 | Ask the children to sit in a circle and explain that the aim of the game is to toss the beanbag ( bomb ) to a child in the circle who may not be expecting it , possibly by looking one way and throwing the other . |
| 24 | Not a lot to say Mr Chairman , I think it 's all been said one way or the other . |
| 25 | Hathaway wanted the scene played one way , Hopper wanted to do it another ; they battled for seven hours and eighty-six takes before Hopper finally bowed to the director 's wishes to do it straight . |
| 26 | Just as a battle begins in a state of equilibrium between tile two sides , which gradually alters one way or the other , until it is clear that the balance has tilted so far that the issue can no longer be in doubt — so this gathering of rabbits in the dark , beginning with hesitant approaches , silences , pauses , movements , crouchings side-by-side and all manner of tentative appraisals , slowly moved , like a hemisphere of the world into summer , to a warmer , brighter region of mutual liking and approval , until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear . |
| 27 | These things have a habit of snowballing one way and another . ’ |
| 28 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 29 | I twisted one way and then another . |
| 30 | PUT one way , K. McComb et al . |