Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | If this is correct , it goes some way towards dealing with cases of ‘ cumulative provocation ’ , and towards a broader defence of emotional pressure . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid it looks that way . |
| 10 | ‘ It looks that way , does n't it ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It looks that way . ’ |
| 12 | We call it monkey brain because it looks that way . ’ |
| 13 | It looks that way yeah . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , it looks that way . ’ |
| 15 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | support among GPs , so it has some way to go in winning the argument . |
| 18 | " If it happens that way , then it 's natural , " said her nephew . |
| 19 | it steals this way |
| 20 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 21 | I hope it stays that way . |
| 22 | The factory workers tend to stick to one task — neck shaping , spraying , buffing , kerfing etc. — and , with the exception of ‘ star pupils ’ who are groomed for higher things ( and therefore shown most processes ) , it stays that way . |
| 23 | The old practical experience is still the best advice : leave a good clear inch ( 2.5cm ) or more between bud and soil when planting , and make quite sure it stays that way , especially when mulching later . |
| 24 | We must make sure it stays that way , " says Dr Simon Lyster , WWF 's Senior Conservation Officer . |
| 25 | If it shifts that way you get a greater liberation of , of ion , of H plus ions which moves the P H down , making it more acid . |
| 26 | Sometimes it seems that way , does n't it ? |
| 27 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 28 | ‘ Yeah , it feels that way to me too . |
| 29 | It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way . |
| 30 | The , I mean it 's only anecdotal , but it feels to me as though the the increase they experienced in June has continued into er July , I know that 's not what we 're looking at but it it feels that way , erm |