Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 2 | You obviously think you can do what you like with women , and perhaps that 's the fault of those who 've let you treat them this way in the past . |
| 3 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 4 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 5 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 6 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 7 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 9 | Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 11 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 12 | So in progressing through there , and I 'm sorry we have n't done it this way , we end up in terms of the County Council figure of nine seven hundred for Greater York , possible er provision from , collectively from the districts of about fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred short . |
| 13 | Sort of , how do you feel about du du du du du du du y'know sort of yes definitely to no not all or y'know kind of does n't bother me to very angry or something like that but given that you 've done it this way , I think it works reasonably well . |
| 14 | Well I have done it this way even for trivial things , because I understood that the committee had to approve the changes and if as I said it seem to me erm , wasteful to get er , Monica to make the changes when they might not be accepted . |
| 15 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 16 | Put it this way . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you ai n't got a brother no more . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Put it this way , ’ says D c Muggleton , ‘ Sixty-five per cent of all the antique dealers in this town are known to us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January . |
| 20 | He made it clear that this was his target when he said yesterday : ‘ Put it this way , if there was a chance of winning the championship and I did n't think I might just do it , then I would n't be normal , would I ? |
| 21 | ‘ Put it this way … the fans can go to see a good fight between me and Razor Ruddock at Earls Court on October 31 — or they can go to see Bruno win on a cut against Coetzer . ’ |
| 22 | Adds Taki : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 23 | Put it this way , Bill : if you can come up with something from Emor — despatches , that sort of thing — I 'd really appreciate it . |
| 24 | Put it this way , if I had children of my own at school , I would be very , very worried if they had a teacher like me . |
| 25 | How is it then I put it this way . |
| 26 | G.C. Allen , the doyen of British Japanologists , put it this way ‘ although government fostered growth in Japan = = it certainly did not and could not prescribe the policy to follow ’ ( 1981 p.192 , italics added ) . |
| 27 | A 30-year-old married company director explains : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 28 | ‘ Put it this way . |
| 29 | Put it this way , you 're probably at more risk of dying crossing the road . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you claim to be able to derive information from internal visual images which you believe to directly correspond to the phenomenal world . ’ |