Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] this way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Sly bugger probably planned it this way , he thought . |
| 7 | Well put it this way , if we were compelled to find the savings they ask , that is the only way we could do it . |
| 8 | Well put it this way |
| 9 | Well put it this way she 's nothing like Mick . |
| 10 | Well put it this way |
| 11 | Right well learn them this way then learn only the sodium hydroxide right |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 13 | Ai n't never seen her this way afore ! ’ . |
| 14 | When he did n't she told herself she had n't really expected any and actually preferred it this way . |
| 15 | Only two housewives actually see it this way without reservations ; Dorothy Underwood , a cinema manager 's wife and the mother of three children under four , and Sandra Bishop , the wife of a painter and decorator and the mother of one child : |