Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 2 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 3 | ‘ Even if we celebrated in a small way we would have attracted tourists from all over the world . |
| 4 | Used in a limited way they are very effective . |
| 5 | ‘ By encouraging people to manage in a certain way you make it seem more appropriate to appoint women . ’ |
| 6 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 7 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 8 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 9 | She did not mention that no more money would be sent — let Ellen discover that when the monthly money orders did not arrive in the punctual way they always had done . |
| 10 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 11 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |