Example sentences of "[verb] they [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 2 | Subtract them that way round . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Arthur says I scratch them any way |
| 5 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 6 | You cut them that way . |
| 7 | Do n't you like them that way ? |
| 8 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 9 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 10 | Yes , they were true , though she had n't thought them that way before . |
| 11 | We have the toughest anti-pornography laws in Western Europe , and we will keep them that way . |
| 12 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 13 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 14 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 15 | But with this man-woman stuff , you could run them any way you liked — and still get no further forward . |
| 16 | So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top . |
| 17 | Linfield have five games left this season — all cup finals in a matter of speaking — and manager Trevor Anderson will certainly be treating them that way . |
| 18 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 19 | My teeth are one of my best assets and I 'd like to keep them that way . |
| 20 | Erm , then anything else I 've said today , this is really not holy writ , erm , I 'm just going to make or suggested arrangement of these dividers and if you want to keep them this way that 's fine , and if you want to do something else with them that 's also fine . |
| 21 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 22 | He certainly Dreamed them that way . |
| 23 | but briar to that we 've got this game show , you know , a bit like er Blind Date and I mean I ca n't stand them any way , and I 'm thinking I have n't got the patience in the morning when I 've got dinners to put up and I 've got them to get going |
| 24 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 25 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 26 | You theekit them that way . |
| 27 | Boys were playing with machine-guns , swivelling them this way and that , peering through the sights . |
| 28 | Yeah , no I 'm putting them that way on top of each other . |
| 29 | they say oh tax is too high , I mean Labour want to put it up any way , but by the by , this answered them any way , what they say is oh its too high , erm even the American tax is four per cent , who gives a dam , because the thing is in America what you 're loosing , what you gain in your tax you have to pay out through the nose for health care |
| 30 | This puts them half way between a drug and a health food . |