Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not if you 've turned it that way cos then you wo n't be able |
| 2 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 5 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Should n't of done it that way . |
| 9 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
| 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 | " I 've never seen it that way before . " |
| 16 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's only hard because between us we 've made it that way , ’ he murmured softly . |
| 19 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |
| 20 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've never had it that way ? ’ |
| 22 | yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them |
| 23 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
| 24 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 25 | She knew this hedge well , having jumped it both ways innumerable times . |
| 26 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
| 27 | Sarah has tried it both ways . |
| 28 | I thought the maid must have left it that way . |
| 29 | ‘ He did not appreciate that his colleague had not taken it that way , ’ she added . |
| 30 | And the irony of it all was that Fernando had n't planned it that way . |