Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 2 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
| 3 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 4 | And they will actually keep your deeds , erm work out if it is cheap enough to do it that way . |
| 5 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 6 | He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way . |
| 7 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 8 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 9 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 10 | Your ankle 's improving , so keep it that way . ’ |
| 11 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 12 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 13 | He meant , among other things , are you living with anyone ? and she knew it , but she cared too much for the day together to tell him one way or the other . |
| 14 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |
| 15 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 16 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
| 17 | and I think it 's just getting him that way , come on shall we put your |
| 18 | So that spreadsheet is just sorting them all way across the bottom and all the way across the top . |
| 19 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 20 | you might be better just doing it this way , just work out what thirty per cent of it is and then take it away from the original |
| 21 | Just do it that way which is what you 'd normally do , on your calculator , you 'd just do sixty times three point five . |
| 22 | But then Jim Henson always planned it that way . |
| 23 | ‘ She usually got it one way or another . ’ |
| 24 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
| 25 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 27 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 28 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 29 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 30 | Usually have it half way do n't they ? |