Example sentences of "you [verb] [prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 2 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 3 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 4 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 5 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 6 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 7 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 8 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 9 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 10 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 11 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |