Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You want it the hard way ?
2 We are Mick(19) and Steve ( 18 ) and we 're in the Forces- So let us open your eyes and show you a new way of life .
3 Put it the other way round , what incentives have the police or the white working class got not to be racist ?
4 I think that I put it the other way round last time .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Put it the right way up then Kathleen ?
8 In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority .
9 You only op open it a certain way .
10 It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way .
11 It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out .
12 He 's the type that you 're gon na have to be firm with Lynn , tell him the only way he 's gon na accept it , is you tell him you just do n't love him
13 That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it .
14 Believe me the only way I 'd ever consider
15 And erm Y equals X squared , and that 's Y and that 's an X. Then turn it the other way up to get X equals Y squared , and now that 's the Y and this is the X.
16 you turn it the other way round , everybody knows that .
17 and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one
18 Try it the other way round .
19 Ian : I turn it round and try it the other way .
20 You try it the other way round .
21 A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws .
22 Those high failure rates make it an efficient way of screening out teenagers who might later fail a university course .
23 Another well known crossover is the snake cable , where you simply cross the stitches one way , knit a few rows then cross them the other way .
24 Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species .
25 do it a different way .
26 How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ?
27 No , but I mean they do it the easy way the
28 Cost effective , economical cheap do it the simple way , so it 's cheap and we 've got what it 's made of concrete .
29 Well on , I do it the right way , because I do n't always feel that I am doing it the right way .
30 Excellent voice I mean worth an A Bill , brilliant if you do that , but I mean I 'm not , I know speaking to sort of Charles and Tom and Alan , they say that sort of recommendation referrals in Norwich are very difficult but I think if you do it the right way
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