Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | She was pleased that Faye drank it that way , since without food value it would n't affect her blood sugar level or insulin intake and therefore did n't have to be regulated in quantity and timing . |
2 | Miss Honey sensed that Matilda wanted it that way . |
3 | Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers : |
4 | Willie liked it that way . |
5 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
6 | Though later , driving home , Nathan saw it another way . |
7 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
8 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . ’ |