Example sentences of "[adj] way he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt the mothers and the family , as in a different way he felt the hospital children , as a threat . |
| 2 | The dignified way he handled the tragedy of his father being gunned down in Bangkok impressed everyone and , although he went 7–0 down to White in the British Open final , he still had the bottle to capture seven frames before losing 10–7 . |
| 3 | There must be some way he could clamber up out of this pit . |
| 4 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |
| 5 | ‘ Looking for the unicorn , ’ she repeated , saying ‘ looking ’ now instead of ‘ hunting ’ because perhaps in some way he was the protector of the beast . |
| 6 | In some way he had offended her . |
| 7 | Was it because in some way he blamed Francis for his mother 's death — or was the reason less dramatic ? |
| 8 | He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon . |
| 9 | Hope saw himself , the ascetic , the missionary , the preacher , the proud foe of great kings , the saint of God , the healer , the miracle worker , the chastiser of his own flesh : and in some way he felt himself shriven . |
| 10 | When Picasso painted the Demoiselles d'Avignon , those of his friends who were allowed to see it seem to have felt that in some way he had let them down . |
| 11 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |
| 12 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 13 | She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John . |
| 14 | In some way he appeared to hearten the French , many of whom were disoriented and depressed by the appalling events , by his insouciance . |
| 15 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 16 | Rose , destroyed in some way he could n't understand , was at the centre of it . |
| 17 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 18 | Despite the careful way he 'd re-sealed it , Blackbeard had spotted it . |
| 19 | ‘ Fair enough , ’ Dr Neil replied , and by the careful way he spoke he had drunk quite a lot of the whisky from the half-empty bottle . |
| 20 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 21 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 22 | In this way he determined the extent of royal demesne lands and woods within the forest , and revoked encroachment made upon them . |
| 23 | Never feed the puppy before the family — this way he understands he is last in the pecking order . |
| 24 | In this way he could form three detachments , controlled through a slightly expanded headquarters staff . |
| 25 | Two , he could go along with Marler , pretend to accept him at face value , and this way he could keep an eye on him . |
| 26 | In this way he can ‘ smell ’ trouble long before it gets serious . |
| 27 | In this way he found 38 flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 28 | In this way he may succeed in attracting the attention of the predator away from the vulnerable fry . |
| 29 | In this way he can check whether there are ‘ more ’ , ‘ fewer ’ or ‘ the same ’ cups as saucers , without using number . |
| 30 | This way he knows live trees are being felled , but he does n't know who 's felling them . ’ |