Example sentences of "[verb] it the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 2 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 3 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 4 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 5 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 6 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 8 | The final barrier to its operation came after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union , when the North-Rhine Westphalia administration responded to intensified local concern by refusing to grant it the required license to operate . |
| 9 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 10 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 11 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 12 | Changed it the other way round . |
| 13 | ‘ You want it the hard way ? |
| 14 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 15 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 16 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 17 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 18 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 19 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 20 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 21 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 22 | Put it the other way round , what incentives have the police or the white working class got not to be racist ? |
| 23 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 24 | And then , put it the other way i if there were nothing that side you 'd have to put it on B because that 's ready to run . |
| 25 | Well we 'll put it just put it the other side of the line . |
| 26 | Right , so when you measure that , okay , you best put it the right way up so you can see what you 're doing , and we 'll turn it back in a minute . |
| 27 | Put it the right way up then Kathleen ? |
| 28 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 29 | BT hopes its new initiatives will give it the upper hand in the bitter battle with Mercury , which it accuses of ‘ cherry picking ’ business customers while ignoring the less profitable residential market . |
| 30 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |