Example sentences of "[verb] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 2 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 3 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 4 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 5 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 6 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 8 | I wan na try it with one of these three , twenty three hour systems , supposed to work it the last |
| 9 | and what was your desire in nineteen eighty seven before the Telegraph article , about increasing on spending advertising , keeping it the same or decreasing ? |
| 10 | The final barrier to its operation came after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union , when the North-Rhine Westphalia administration responded to intensified local concern by refusing to grant it the required license to operate . |
| 11 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 13 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 14 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 15 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 16 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 17 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 18 | Changed it the other way round . |
| 19 | ‘ You want it the hard way ? |
| 20 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 21 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 22 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 23 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 24 | The Sports Council says it the best means of acquiring all-round fitness . |
| 25 | She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said . |
| 26 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 27 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 28 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 29 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
| 30 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |