Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 2 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 3 | As a particularly honoured guest , Eliot sat at High Table , whereas others like myself were placed among the students or ‘ novices ’ , and I preferred it that way . |
| 4 | Well ca n't , if I did it that way it would use your because it might all , take all the bubbles out ! |
| 5 | The old order seemed fine to me , and I left it that way . |
| 6 | She hated it that way . |
| 7 | ‘ Only because you steered it that way , ’ Belinda said crossly . |
| 8 | I BLOODY WELL WILL to show her , is what I thought so it was a shot of adrenalin I needed … not , I know , that she meant it that way . |
| 9 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
| 10 | Already to most of the regular customers she was n't the famous Aurora Blake , but simply , Rory , and she liked it that way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 13 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 14 | She held it this way and that , frowning . |
| 15 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 16 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 17 | ‘ I guess we saw it that way : I did for sure . |
| 18 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 19 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 20 | Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent . |
| 21 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 22 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 23 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 24 | They planned it this way ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |
| 27 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 28 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
| 29 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 30 | 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 . |