Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 2 | Listen you told me you ai n't gon na cry this morning , put it this way you wo n't be going to the sweet shop will we ? |
| 3 | I like these put it this way I like sweets , oh look they 've changed the bow |
| 4 | Well put it this way she 's nothing like Mick . |
| 5 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 6 | Sorry to start that way up , but still that 's the way , should n't do it that way I get confused whether I 'm putting the right word down . |
| 7 | Mum , but it 's tricky because when , when you chop that way , and then that way chop it that way it 's all |
| 8 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 9 | But if we 're to handle it this way it 's got to be fast and we need every lead you can give us . ’ |
| 10 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 11 | The director said : " You can take it any way you like . " |
| 12 | ‘ You can write down what you like and people can read it any way they want but unless you 've got no job , no money and nowhere decent to live then you do n't know what it 's like to be out of work . |
| 13 | Did you know Jehovah 's organizations always changes , not with it , but to combat it that way it comes to work , it keeps us alive , it keeps us on our toes , and so we could go on and on in saying well look keep away , stay awake and do everything that we should and , and we can stand here for the rest of the talk saying well do it , do it , do it but that 's easy for me to do that is n't it ? |
| 14 | Well ca n't , if I did it that way it would use your because it might all , take all the bubbles out ! |
| 15 | When you did it this way you go straight across , straight across , strai , but yo your second jumps you were doing you were going there like that instead of going straight across . |
| 16 | Two-year-olds thrive on attention and they 'll get it any way they can — crying for no reason , breath-holding , tantrums and general naughtiness . |
| 17 | He said , well let's put it this way he said I can get into a Ford and start it without breaking any windows |
| 18 | If I do it that way she 'll either refuse to go , or , if she does go , she 'll be back within a short time . ’ |
| 19 | And if you do it this way it ensures that you start seeing results straight away — the harder stuff will come anyway . |
| 20 | Classify it any way you prefer . ’ |