Example sentences of "[pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 2 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Jahsaxa , do n't push me this way ! ’ |
| 4 | Having to find out about me this way . ’ |
| 5 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 6 | What happens next will seal my fate : the places I find , the letters I write , even the people I meet who point me this way or that . |
| 7 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know why I let you annoy me this way . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't let you do this to me , Rourke ; I wo n't let you use me this way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You can pay your debt to me this way , ’ Dai Huang told Li Lu curtly . |
| 11 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 12 | What gives you the right to talk to me this way ? |
| 13 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 14 | Right well learn them this way then learn only the sodium hydroxide right |
| 15 | You had to lay them this way and that way |
| 16 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 17 | Boys were playing with machine-guns , swivelling them this way and that , peering through the sights . |
| 18 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 19 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 20 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 21 | Erm , then anything else I 've said today , this is really not holy writ , erm , I 'm just going to make or suggested arrangement of these dividers and if you want to keep them this way that 's fine , and if you want to do something else with them that 's also fine . |
| 22 | If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent . |
| 23 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 24 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 25 | The deep flow takes you this way . |
| 26 | LOOK , I 'll put it to you this way , in the hope you 'll understand . |
| 27 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 28 | Full of hatred and Greek yoghurt she pushed and pulled at Otley sending him this way and that . |
| 29 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the refusal by a parent or guardian , on the patient 's behalf , of a certain treatment need not necessarily be respected , if it is deemed in the patient 's interests to treat him this way . |