Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] 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 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 3 | There is something quite stunning about ahead of shiny , glossy hair but as we all know , keeping it that way can sometimes prove difficult . |
| 4 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
| 5 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
| 6 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 9 | How many , you want it that way , you want eleven . |
| 10 | But I want it that way . |
| 11 | ‘ And he wants it that way . |
| 12 | Not if you 've turned it that way cos then you wo n't be able |
| 13 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 14 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 15 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 16 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 17 | But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way . |
| 18 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 19 | Should n't of done it that way . |
| 20 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so |
| 27 | ‘ Well , if you put it that way … ’ the porter said with a nervous chuckle . |
| 28 | And put it that way ! |
| 29 | And they sometimes put it that way round . |
| 30 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |