Example sentences of "it [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't proposing to do it that way for anyone 's work but my own ! |
| 2 | See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years . |
| 3 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 4 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
| 5 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 6 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 7 | But I did n't see it that way at all — and I was very disappointed about the whole affair . |
| 8 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 9 | I do n't see it that way at all but if they 're right er I 'd defend your invitation and my acceptance by quoting the old idiom , better the devil you know . |
| 10 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 11 | But not everybody saw it that way at the time . |
| 12 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
| 13 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 14 | Keep it that way by preventing it coming into contact with raw meat , poultry and fish . |
| 15 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 16 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
| 17 | Sloan Wilson did not sneer at it that way in his autobiography , What Shall We Wear To This Party : |
| 18 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 19 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
| 20 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 21 | So these are all factors in here which er the the Well first of all the general public was provided with a a synopsis of this if I can put it that way in that the en original consultation leaflet included er extracts from this , summaries of it er in the leaflet , er and that set out clearly the differing traffic effects of the outer northern relief road compared with the inner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 24 | She backed the second each way , despite me saying I 'm not , I 'm not going in there and back it each way for |
| 25 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 26 | This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) . |
| 27 | Only two housewives actually see it this way without reservations ; Dorothy Underwood , a cinema manager 's wife and the mother of three children under four , and Sandra Bishop , the wife of a painter and decorator and the mother of one child : |
| 28 | Let me put it this way to you Noel |
| 29 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 30 | Mahler himself conducted it this way on one occasion . ’ |