Example sentences of "way it [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 2 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 3 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 4 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 6 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 8 | the way it used to be ? |
| 9 | ‘ That is the way it used to be . ’ |