Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way . |
| 2 | If we started with a clean sheet of paper we would not plan it that way . |
| 3 | In Red Rhino 's terms , it was a fantastically expensive record to make but Korda Marshall at RCA did not see it that way . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not see it that way , but it 's all been built up now . |
| 5 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 6 | Henry James did not see it that way . |
| 7 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 8 | John does not see it that way . |
| 9 | but I 'm not doing it that way , cos you have to join it at the back |
| 10 | ‘ He did not appreciate that his colleague had not taken it that way , ’ she added . |
| 11 | The point , though Hurd did not put it this way , is that Labour 's amendment 27 , seeking to scupper Major 's triumph in excluding Britain from the social chapter , was a complete red herring . |
| 12 | However , I do not play it this way but allow each person ‘ goosed ’ to be the next catcher . |
| 13 | Even though it was billed as a friendly , Tottenham did n't treat it that way . ’ |
| 14 | If it worked , which it would n't , I would n't want it that way . |
| 15 | Right , if we do n't do it that way how will we pass that information , which a a as I understand it you want passed to the form tutor ? |
| 16 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 17 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 18 | Promise you wo n't do it that way . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 20 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 21 | Sometimes you ca n't do it that way though can you ? |
| 22 | you ca n't do it that way , you just slide the pack out |
| 23 | I would n't do it that way personally but then |
| 24 | Sorry to start that way up , but still that 's the way , should n't do it that way I get confused whether I 'm putting the right word down . |
| 25 | Because if we do n't do it that way , then our forecasts are of no use to anybody . |
| 26 | Verbal messages become more hostile , more aggressive , and the threat of rejection may be offered ( ‘ If you ca n't do it this way , do n't do it at all' — fail and you must go elsewhere ) . |
| 27 | But then I found that they had n't done it that way . |
| 28 | But the essence of your answer to the questions that have been asked over the last twenty minutes or so , is we have n't done it that way . |
| 29 | So in progressing through there , and I 'm sorry we have n't done it this way , we end up in terms of the County Council figure of nine seven hundred for Greater York , possible er provision from , collectively from the districts of about fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred short . |
| 30 | ( Presenter ) Some do n't perceive it that way and say it could be political suicide for the Conservatives ( Legge ) |