Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 2 | Put it this way at least my Mum never beat up my Dad . |
| 3 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 4 | But I did n't see it that way at all — and I was very disappointed about the whole affair . |
| 5 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 6 | I do n't see it that way at all but if they 're right er I 'd defend your invitation and my acceptance by quoting the old idiom , better the devil you know . |
| 7 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 8 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 9 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 10 | See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years . |
| 11 | I was n't proposing to do it that way for anyone 's work but my own ! |
| 12 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 13 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
| 14 | It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 16 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
| 17 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 18 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
| 19 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 20 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 21 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 22 | Keep it that way by preventing it coming into contact with raw meat , poultry and fish . |
| 23 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 24 | But not everybody saw it that way at the time . |
| 25 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 26 | Okay try try it this way with the man hours anyway . |
| 27 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 28 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . |
| 29 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . ’ |
| 30 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |