Example sentences of "do [pers pn] in [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 2 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 3 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 4 | I would do it in a nice way and then he might remember me and ask me out later . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't do it in a provocative way — just quickly and calmly step back a couple of paces when you have finished , to increase the distance between you . |
| 6 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 7 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 8 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 9 | Afghans have always killed each other in a small way , and started to do it in a big way only when foreign armies , money and weapons became involved . |
| 10 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 11 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 12 | ‘ By doing this , we 're simplifying the process of using a spreadsheet , and doing it in a consistent way . |
| 13 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 14 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 15 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | PAMELA : [ kneeling ] I am poor indeed in everything compared to you , and how very far do you in every generous way leave me behind you . |
| 18 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 19 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 20 | And when your back to school get back and do it in a serious way . |
| 21 | Now if you want to do this in a proper way , then you do it in a proper way . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , they do it in the normal way usually . |
| 23 | You ca n't say that males , females , the old or the young a are those who , who carry on their sexual role in a regular way , or those who do it in an irregular way have a privileged point of view . |