Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And he wants it that way . |
2 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
3 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
4 | ‘ I doubt if the whiting sees it that way , ’ grunted Rose . |
5 | Gover prefers it that way : he could not imagine anyone else running the place . |
6 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
7 | He prefers it that way . |
8 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
9 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
10 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
11 | Well , it might be that we regard it as whether everybody else interprets it that way . |
12 | Carl Kester of Harvard Business School usefully puts it another way in a recent book , ‘ Japanese Takeovers : the global contest for corporate control . ’ |
13 | Roy , the skinhead guitarist , puts it this way : — ‘ All skins are for the flag but that does n't mean they 're all NF or British Movement . |
14 | Gellner ( 1974 , p.28 ) puts it this way : |
15 | Lucy 's black friend Yvonne puts it this way ; ‘ On the whole right , it 's the people in authority what brings that tension around , you know , 'cos the black people are thinkin' 'ow comes they not gettin' all the jobs , you know . ’ |
16 | A former District Commissioner of Wajir in Kenya said to me , when making a donation , that he had heard that the wells of underground water which had always sustained life was indeed to be our theme , and the Glasgow Gospel version of the Guid Samaritan by our ‘ 92 celebrity , Jamie Stuart , puts it this way : ‘ Wan day an expert lawyer tried tae trick Jesus . |
17 | ‘ She likes it that way . ’ |
18 | ‘ Knox goes looking for a fight , but Steve likes it that way . |
19 | Although still a shareholder , he is no longer on the board , and likes it that way . |
20 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |