Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drank automatically when It was over , noticed only when her glass was empty and did n't let it stay that way long . |
| 2 | Let it stay that way . ’ |
| 3 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 4 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 5 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 6 | Surely a forlorn ambition , but it goes some way to explain , what would otherwise be so difficult to understand , why eminent members of the nascent |
| 7 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 8 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 9 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 10 | It is keen to exploit the so-called personal communications market — supposedly destined to grow from one million world users in 1994 to 100 million by 2000 — and having a finger in both pies means it wins either way . |
| 11 | ‘ And you want it to remain that way ? ’ |
| 12 | In relation to what the hon. Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) said about the letters that I receive , very few of them to date , particularly since we have been televised , have been about bad behaviour in the House — rather the reverse — and I wish it to remain that way . |
| 13 | He says he would have liked it to continue this way . |
| 14 | Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed . |
| 16 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 17 | It was already clear to Coleman from his analysis of the drugs-related intelligence coming out of Lebanon that the traditional heroin route to the US via Cyprus , Frankfurt and London was used regularly by both agencies , that the traffic was not always in narcotics and that it moved both ways . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid it looks that way . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks that way , does n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It looks that way . ’ |
| 21 | We call it monkey brain because it looks that way . ’ |
| 22 | It looks that way yeah . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , it looks that way . ’ |
| 24 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 25 | Although our productivity compares well with coal industries in Europe , it has some way to go before it is at the level of some of the coal industries outside Europe . |
| 26 | support among GPs , so it has some way to go in winning the argument . |
| 27 | Sources say there were only really four companies behind COSE : Unix System Laboratories Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc : beyond that , says the source , Santa Cruz Operation Inc had to fight to get in and the Open Software Foundation was not a party to the negotiations ; but the real power behind the throne , although it does n't want it to appear that way , was of course Novell Inc . |
| 28 | The power behind the throne , though it does n't want it to appear that way , was Novell Inc . |
| 29 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
| 30 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |