All of this will be conducted in a very businesslike way, you see.

Things are done in a businesslike way there, and that suits me.

'But we have another matter first,' she said in her businesslike way.

But even if it wasn't a business, an institution this large must be run in a businesslike way.

She had released his hand and was talking in a businesslike way.

We are trying to run this in a businesslike way.

We put together a good deal in a businesslike way that will pay out.

The most pathetic part, perhaps, was the businesslike way in which they went about it.

"And I don't conduct my life in a businesslike, professional way."

"Clearly she'll say no, but that was a good, businesslike way of putting it."