Example sentences of "it [verb] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it goes the other way , and he 's called guilty of murder , then , worse , he 'll hang . ’ |
| 2 | It goes the other way . |
| 3 | How do you mean , it goes the other way ? |
| 4 | What no fanny , it goes the other way . |
| 5 | It goes the opposite way to this . |
| 6 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 7 | In short , ‘ it offers the only way of experiencing essence ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It seemed the only way to avoid a huge argument . ’ |
| 10 | It seemed the ideal way for the NFC to go into the private sector . |
| 11 | When the moment came , it happened the other way round . |
| 12 | They stood before the dressing table for a while , looking at it and discussing it , apparently , but eventually just turned it round so that it faced the wrong way , rather than turn it upside down . |
| 13 | Only when the water is very high will it run the other way . |
| 14 | ‘ It sounds the wrong way round to choose the area because of the premises . |
| 15 | Yet Minton 's sociability was only one side of the coin : when it landed the other way up his loneliness was all too apparent . |
| 16 | And , of course , it applies the other way too . |
| 17 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
| 18 | But , as an exile friend says , threatening to throw himself in Chihana 's footsteps , ‘ It seems the only way the media will be interested is if something happens to someone else . ’ |
| 19 | Everton boss Howard Kendall is reluctant to allow a quality player to depart , but with the club almost £4 m in debt and gates falling it seems the only way he can gather sufficient funds . |
| 20 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 21 | It seems the only way round my problem . |
| 22 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 23 | Instead , it chose the easy way out of its dilemma by demolishing the colleges of education . |
| 24 | Sensibly , it chose the dignified way out . |
| 25 | ‘ It looked the other way round to me , ’ said Tommy . |
| 26 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 27 | If that makes that happen that way what makes it go the opposite way ? |
| 28 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 29 | It symbolises the emergent way in which social relations are managed ; the individualisation , classification and invisible control being the characteristic means by which power is established and maintained in contemporary societies . |
| 30 | It runs the opposite way . |