Example sentences of "[det] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why is he smoking , and waving his arms about in that awful way ? ’ |
| 2 | It 's obvious , Sir John , ’ he continued , ‘ our murderer must be someone who has lived in Outremer , someone who knows about the Hashishoni — the flat sesame seed cake , and that awful way of humiliating the corpse of an executed criminal . ’ |
| 3 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 4 | I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl . |
| 5 | It used to be , according to the Association of Corporate and Professional Recruiters in that charming way Americans have , ‘ get us a warm body ’ , or even a bright and experienced executive . |
| 6 | Each different way of expressing ‘ the topic ’ will effectively represent a different judgement of what is being written ( or talked ) about in a text . |
| 7 | and that fearless way he hath |
| 8 | and that free way of talking about pain . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
| 10 | The sociological fantasy that pop musicians could be some sort of organic intellectuals was remarkably stubborn ; it dominated initial left-wing responses to punk , and it was only when the material basis of the fantasy — youth as class — broke down in the late 1970s recession , that different ways of conceiving pop politics began to be attractive . |
| 11 | But it may be of interest to note , simply through the observation of some important early instruments , that different ways of playing the piano can be shown to have e– ted at the same time . |
| 12 | Can this , at last , be a glimpse of that untroubled way of life in the cobbled , horse-drawn streets of Old England ? |
| 13 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 14 | Could I just say that readings taken in this adapted way are called decibels A-weighted , which is a bit sort of technical and silly , but it 's kind of important if you 're measuring the sort of sound that people listen to . |
| 15 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 16 | She thought of Juliette and Fernand and their martyred brother , namesake of their hero , and in some indefinable way felt at one with them . |
| 17 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
| 18 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 19 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 20 | She had certainly not planned on saying that , it was just that there was no reason to hate an old woman just because you hated her insufferable grandson , especially when she reminded you , in some indefinable way , of your own grandmother — but why should she explain any of that to this man ? |
| 21 | But we can not hope to defend integrity in this normal way because we know that integrity will sometimes conflict with what fairness and justice recommend . |
| 22 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 23 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 24 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
| 25 | The smell of meths had an unforeseen affect on the foal , and in some strange way stimulated the foal 's aggressive instinct . |
| 26 | It seemed to him that he was Kurz , in some strange way . |
| 27 | I am , in some strange way reminded of the enigma of mortality and immortality , of birth , life , growth and ultimately death . |
| 28 | How this deficit occurred I shall never know , but in some strange way the Medical Clerk was held responsible . |
| 29 | In some strange way , however , it is incapable of putting its usual pain reactions into operation . |
| 30 | We can again feel the wind , the warmth and the cold on our body , which is a new experience for many and does , in some strange way , draw one closer to Nature for that reason alone . |