Example sentences of "[verb] it this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Put it this way . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , put it this way , you ai n't got a brother no more . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Put it this way , ’ says D c Muggleton , ‘ Sixty-five per cent of all the antique dealers in this town are known to us . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Adds Taki : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 16 | Put it this way , Bill : if you can come up with something from Emor — despatches , that sort of thing — I 'd really appreciate it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How is it then I put it this way . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | A 30-year-old married company director explains : ‘ Put it this way . |
| 21 | ‘ Put it this way . |
| 22 | Put it this way , you 're probably at more risk of dying crossing the road . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Put it this way , M' lud : my client thinks that most of the values of the society in which he lives stink , and he hopes with this book to promote fornication , masturbation , adultery , the stoning of priests and , since we 've temporarily got your attention , M' lud , the suspension of corrupt judges by their earlobes . |
| 25 | Well okay , put it this way , there 's a big dispute . |
| 26 | Hans Tietmayer , then Deputy President Elect of the Bundesbank , put it this way as early as June 1991 : ‘ A single currency requires a single bank which must be matched by a single government and a single state . ’ |
| 27 | Put it this way : in Danu , even with FAKINTIL on the way out , with my history it was like I possessed a personal qualification : doctor , lawyer , accountant , except I was not one of those but a traitor . |
| 28 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |
| 29 | Put it this way , it looked like something Clint Eastwood would n't have minded finding on his Christmas tree . |
| 30 | Well put it this way , if we were compelled to find the savings they ask , that is the only way we could do it . |