Example sentences of "[vb base] it [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 2 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 3 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 4 | Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way : |
| 5 | How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in . |
| 6 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 7 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 8 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 9 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 10 | After use , you can either throw the used head away , or clean it in the usual way . |
| 11 | I think anger 's a really positive energy if you use it in the right way . |
| 12 | Right they all make the salt , they all make it in the same way Hydrochloric acid would make ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |
| 14 | Once you have used the designer , you can take the code it produces and edit it in the usual way . |
| 15 | We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things . |
| 16 | But at the same time , if you treat it in the wrong way , it will strike you dead . ’ |
| 17 | Treat it in the same way as black spot , with particular attention to clearing up fallen leaves on to the fire . |