Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you do it this way if you were starting off from scratch ? ’ was the question posed by ACOST chairman Sir Robin Nicholson . |
| 4 | Now that is n't easy actually , because you know , the practitioner 's think they know best and they actually quite resent , you know , the young Policy Officer 's coming in and saying let's do it this way , shall we ? |
| 5 | Verbal messages become more hostile , more aggressive , and the threat of rejection may be offered ( ‘ If you ca n't do it this way , do n't do it at all' — fail and you must go elsewhere ) . |
| 6 | So you could see the pattern yourself and make it easier and a lot of the time at school when the teacher 's telling you , Why do n't you do it this way ? they 're not trying to make it harder for you . |
| 7 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 8 | We 'll do it this way . |
| 9 | They can do it this way . |
| 10 | and get it very quickly without messing about , try this one then , erm , four hundred plus that , plus seventeen point five per cent , and , now then okay , let's do it this way . |
| 11 | can do it this way . |
| 12 | ‘ I wo n't let you do this to me , Rourke ; I wo n't let you use me this way . ’ |
| 13 | Syl did n't see it this way . |
| 14 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know why I let you annoy me this way . ’ |
| 16 | Can I , can I take it this way . |
| 17 | " Well then , let's try it this way , " Tom said patiently . |
| 18 | She 'll say , " Why do n't you try it this way ? " and not , " Do it this way . " |
| 19 | That he could affect her this way was deeply shocking . |
| 20 | It 's a compromise between the straight-ahead disco that guarantees a toehold in the charts — the retread of Never Can Say Goodbye is a rather cheap cash-in on the success of Do n't Leave Me This Way — and the more varied explorations where their hearts probably lie . |
| 21 | ‘ Let me put it this way , child . |
| 22 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 23 | No New Ager would put it this way . |
| 24 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 25 | Let's put it this way : because of the occasional lightning strike and buckets of water from the celestial quarter there was little opportunity for sevens hookers to ply their ancient trade . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll put it this way . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , let's put it this way . |
| 28 | Let me put it this way : presiding over the darkness out of which I had loomed there was a figure , a male shape , with an entirely unmanageable aura , containing such things as beauty , terror , love , filth , and above all power . |
| 29 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 30 | ‘ Let me put it this way , Sir Robert , if Moodie dreaded our return then he had very little to fear . ’ |