Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] way and " 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 | 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 |
| 3 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 4 | ( Presenter ) Some do n't perceive it that way and say it could be political suicide for the Conservatives ( Legge ) |
| 5 | You can do it that way and it works out a lot cheaper . |
| 6 | Oh I 'll do it that way and take a chance . |
| 7 | or owt owing to me , I says , we 'll do it that way and then you come |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The moon called to her , she thought , pulling her this way and that . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ The current was drifting them one way and the wind was blowing the boat the other . ’ |
| 21 | Full of hatred and Greek yoghurt she pushed and pulled at Otley sending him this way and that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 24 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 25 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 26 | They 'll take risks Let's do so- and-so , and have a go at doing it this way And they 're often idealistic . |
| 27 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 28 | So he clicked it all way and it come up I says now get your green line I says straight down middle and tune it in . |
| 29 | Hasan hunched over the wheel of his car with a great effort of concentration , swinging it this way and that to avoid the atrocious pot-holes . |
| 30 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |