Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | We do things like this because we have always done it that way . |
3 | Because we 've always done it that way . |
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 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
7 | yeah , but that 's a hundred I mean you can tell , I 've tried it , it is , I , I ai n't even had it half way and it 's , you can tell it 's overdriving them |
8 | " I 've never seen it that way before . " |
9 | ‘ You 've never had it that way ? ’ |