Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parissien acknowledges another benefit : ‘ the bottom line , for those who want to see it that way , is that the course is also a guide to how to put money onto a house , rather than take it off . ’ |
| 2 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 4 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 5 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 7 | If anyone says to you , Oh you do n't want to remember it that way . |
| 8 | That was quick , that five forty , I was trying to work it out out because I was n't going to cancel it that way , but that 's great . |
| 9 | Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way . |
| 10 | So we 've got to have that statement in and we 've got to differentiate it some way or from the |
| 11 | I 'm going to it going to do it that way but you can see it the earth is round . |
| 12 | I had honestly not thought how you would solve that problem in advance , and I 'm glad I did because my amazement certainly I wanted it to show with the kids when I said ‘ Goodness , what , you know , how on earth are you going to do it that way ? ’ . |
| 13 | No , I have always preferred to do it this way , though I must say the Missa Solemnis is a very difficult work to direct . |
| 14 | I think it is very sad they 've had to do it that way . |
| 15 | I 'm really surprised that the maker has neglected to scrape the frets clean of lacquer after the final coat , but Manson actually prefers to do it this way . |
| 16 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 17 | I still have a job , and I 'd like to keep it that way . |
| 18 | Now you count on that but the next vote then comes in and they 're still not available beds are not available in it , and the next four and the next four so you 'll have , for years you 'll have those out of operation would you like to call it that way and out of production . |
| 19 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |
| 20 | Er and but others just feel they want to do it that way , other companies . |
| 21 | We agreed to do it this way , do you remember ? " |
| 22 | ‘ If you like to put it that way , yes , ’ said Robyn defiantly . |
| 23 | It was , if you like to put it that way , it was a status that it was your district . ’ |
| 24 | They get advice from the officers of the Local Education Authority , so there 's a number of people who are running things , if you like to put it that way , and they have to have good relationships erm and I must say that erm I have n't seen anything obstructive , particularly on our Board of Governors , from local Councillors and we 've had nothing but help from Local Education Authority officers , and I 'm glad we 're not going to lose that help . |
| 25 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 26 | But while the show is now safely up and running in the theatre , there 's still plenty to do to keep it that way . |
| 27 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 28 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
| 29 | I 'm now my own man , and I intend to keep it that way . ’ |
| 30 | The latest audience research indicates that our audience is still growing and we intend to keep it that way . ’ |