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 |