Example sentences of "it this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 2 | It would be better for doing it this way . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me put it this way , child . |
| 4 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 5 | Look at it this way , said Chris 's friend , Richard Lees . |
| 6 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 7 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 8 | Put it this way . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you ai n't got a brother no more . ’ |
| 10 | No , I have always preferred to do it this way , though I must say the Missa Solemnis is a very difficult work to direct . |
| 11 | ‘ Put it this way , ’ says D c Muggleton , ‘ Sixty-five per cent of all the antique dealers in this town are known to us . ’ |
| 12 | Hurst summarised it this way : ‘ Much of the evolution of genetical systems is internally driven ’ , as a reaction to a series of conflicts generated by solutions to previous conflicts . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you do it this way if you were starting off from scratch ? ’ was the question posed by ACOST chairman Sir Robin Nicholson . |
| 14 | Osterlind himself told it this way . |
| 15 | ‘ They prefer it this way , I 'm telling you . |
| 16 | Roy , the skinhead guitarist , puts it this way : — ‘ All skins are for the flag but that does n't mean they 're all NF or British Movement . |
| 17 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 18 | From St Paul 's Cathedral to Putney Vale Crematorium did not seem such a short distance to the neighbours , such was their generous enthusiasm for Donald 's interment , and when they heard there were plans for a memorial service at Wimbledon Parish Church , some people said it was even better to do it this way . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 20 | No New Ager would put it this way . |
| 21 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 22 | However , I do not play it this way but allow each person ‘ goosed ’ to be the next catcher . |
| 23 | I 'm really surprised that the maker has neglected to scrape the frets clean of lacquer after the final coat , but Manson actually prefers to do it this way . |
| 24 | And if you do it this way it ensures that you start seeing results straight away — the harder stuff will come anyway . |
| 25 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 26 | Look At It This Way is Justin Cartwright 's adaptation of his own satirical novel about London life in the late 80s . |
| 27 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 28 | He made it clear that this was his target when he said yesterday : ‘ Put it this way , if there was a chance of winning the championship and I did n't think I might just do it , then I would n't be normal , would I ? |
| 29 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |