Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 3 | Get them round the wrong way , of course , and you spend ten thousand pounds worth of preparation on a ten p problem . |
| 4 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 5 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
| 6 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 7 | It might be unpractical to replicate eastern culture in the west , but there is much to be gained from extracting certain elements of that culture and adapting them to the western way of life . |
| 8 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
| 9 | which often looks quite nice so that even if what you 've found does n't quite match up with what they 've found you can say well look you know these theories , ideas are need enriching , they 're a bit inadequate as they stand because what happens when somebody tells you this , what happens when somebody says this erm you know we can , we can revise them in the following way |
| 10 | But they ca n't turn them round the other way ! |
| 11 | But they ca n't turn them round the other way ! |
| 12 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 13 | However if you are prone to sore feet , treat them in the old-fashioned way by rubbing the soles and heels with surgical spirit to harden the skin . |