Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 2 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | you might be better just doing it this way , just work out what thirty per cent of it is and then take it away from the original |
| 5 | The point , though Hurd did not put it this way , is that Labour 's amendment 27 , seeking to scupper Major 's triumph in excluding Britain from the social chapter , was a complete red herring . |
| 6 | However , I do not play it this way but allow each person ‘ goosed ’ to be the next catcher . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Sly bugger probably planned it this way , he thought . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Well put it this way , if we were compelled to find the savings they ask , that is the only way we could do it . |
| 12 | Well put it this way |
| 13 | Well put it this way she 's nothing like Mick . |
| 14 | Well put it this way |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Syl did n't see it this way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Jahsaxa , do n't push me this way ! ’ |
| 19 | Right well learn them this way then learn only the sodium hydroxide right |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 21 | Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ . |
| 22 | When he did n't she told herself she had n't really expected any and actually preferred it this way . |
| 23 | Only two housewives actually see it this way without reservations ; Dorothy Underwood , a cinema manager 's wife and the mother of three children under four , and Sandra Bishop , the wife of a painter and decorator and the mother of one child : |