Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] way [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 2 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 3 | while you 're still able sort of comfortably to drive and that sort of thing , I mean if you put it that way and you 'll be saying anyway she 's my er she 's my only living |
| 4 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 5 | ( Presenter ) Some do n't perceive it that way and say it could be political suicide for the Conservatives ( Legge ) |
| 6 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 7 | Well I 'd either do it that way or pay , erm , credit cards . |
| 8 | You can do it that way and it works out a lot cheaper . |
| 9 | Oh I 'll do it that way and take a chance . |
| 10 | or owt owing to me , I says , we 'll do it that way and then you come |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 14 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 15 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 16 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 17 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , honey , you want me to help you some way or other . |
| 19 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |
| 20 | The moon called to her , she thought , pulling her this way and that . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | So we 've got to have that statement in and we 've got to differentiate it some way or from the |
| 23 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 24 | The point is , they 'll report it one way or the other . |
| 25 | That was the way his mind worked ; he would be struck by a sentence or a phrase , then he would worry at it , turning it this way and that . |
| 26 | I 'd like to say that I do sit on T U C youth forum and the G M B have the strongest , most active youth section so let's keep it that way and give our young members all the support and encouragement they deserve . |
| 27 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 28 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 29 | Full of hatred and Greek yoghurt she pushed and pulled at Otley sending him this way and that . |
| 30 | Now , you may wonder , along with one of my guests this week , what the point is of having Punch lunches if their proceedings remain private , but we like it that way and , besides , it means that we get some seriously filthy gossip . |