Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osterlind himself told it this way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 4 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 5 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 6 | Hurst summarised it this way : ‘ Much of the evolution of genetical systems is internally driven ’ , as a reaction to a series of conflicts generated by solutions to previous conflicts . |
| 7 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 8 | Sly bugger probably planned it this way , he thought . |
| 9 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 10 | They planned it this way ? |
| 11 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 12 | Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent . |
| 13 | When he did n't she told herself she had n't really expected any and actually preferred it this way . |
| 14 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 15 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 16 | When you did it this way you go straight across , straight across , strai , but yo your second jumps you were doing you were going there like that instead of going straight across . |
| 17 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 18 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |
| 19 | They made us this way . ’ |
| 20 | Mahler himself conducted it this way on one occasion . ’ |
| 21 | She held it this way and that , frowning . |