Example sentences of "the other way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's been the other way around with us . |
2 | I watched her go and then , shaking my head , I turned and walked the other way . |
3 | Usually , but not always , the ball of the slip indicator is out the other way . |
4 | And then you lift your feet off the ground and rush round and round , faster and faster and the momentum even twists the chain up again the other way ? ’ |
5 | Actually , I think the woman was envious that I was sexy and Max was cute — or the other way round ! ’ |
6 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
7 | Even his way of throwing his money about , what he has of it , is immediately distinguishable from Svidrigailov 's , while with both of them money is the very image of merely imputed and therefore reversible value in a loose-end world : ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like . ’ |
8 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
9 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |
10 | For Eliot , who chose the other way , earned entry into nothing more seriously influential than the circles of Bloomsbury , where the Edwardian pattern survived only in an attenuated and largely illusory version . ) |
11 | In fact , the equation is more challenging the other way round : Pound thinks Joyce a Phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini — a temperate judgement that the years may be thought to have vindicated . |
12 | It is the Americans who remake foreign films , not the other way round . |
13 | Without denying the great efforts made by the local council and others to improve the estate , it is they who chose not to co-operate with police , not the other way round . |
14 | Conversely , Ninagawa had trouble applying the combination of eastern and western styles to a traditional Japanese piece : ‘ It is much more difficult to bring realism into stylization than the other way round . |
15 | Sir : Mr Stephen Campbell ( letters , 5 October ) asks if he is alone in thinking that personal injury awards should be increased in relation to libel awards rather than the other way round . |
16 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
17 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
18 | Rather than use his apartment as an extension of the office , Milton did things the other way round . |
19 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
20 | This is the other way : you fix the expenditure first , and you hope afterwards ; and if it does n't come off ( which it is unlikely to , if you are gambling on an improbability ) , then the result is the monetisation of debt with the consequences which we know . |
21 | As a manager I have to judge whether a young band 's professional tail is wagging the domestic dog or the other way round . |
22 | Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way And the sea the other way , Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf . |
23 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
24 | It is in this context that Marx and Engels finally turn the tables on the ideas of philosophers who , like Hegel , had argued about the primacy of ideas , especially the idea of the State , as though these ideas had formed the processes of history rather than the other way round . |
25 | The Germanic tribe is therefore based on shared locality rather than kinship , but it consists of a collection of kinship units each with access to a territory , thus ‘ individual landed property ( of the different families ) does not appear as a contradictory form of communal landed property , nor as mediated by the community but the other way round . |
26 | This is clearly wrong : if anything , the evidence is all the other way ( Ucko and Dimbleby , 1969 ) ; in most cases agriculture preceded herding . |
27 | Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . |
28 | Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly . |
29 | I guess I do have a slight leaning towards comedy , but I find if I do a bunch of comedies , I get anxious to do something dramatic , and the other way round . |
30 | Well , you ca n't call it a crime , can you , looking the other way in a cafe when somebody 's nicking your vehicle from a lay-by ? ’ |