Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time . |
| 2 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 3 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 4 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 5 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 6 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 7 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 8 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 9 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 10 | Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! |
| 11 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 12 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 13 | Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round . |
| 14 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 15 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 16 | erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well . |
| 17 | I 've got it the other way round look . |
| 18 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 19 | ‘ No , Ace , you 've got it the wrong way round . |
| 20 | With an effort she turned to Jos , who had followed them a short way . |
| 21 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 22 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 23 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 24 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 25 | Now she 's got it the other way about |
| 26 | Double-check you have got everything the right way round so that the artwork is not back to front , then close up the UV light box and switch on . |
| 27 | He 's learnt it the hard way now and he 's . |