Example sentences of "[verb] me in [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to kill me in a horrific way , to frighten those who work in defence of human rights . |
| 2 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 3 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 4 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 5 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 6 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 7 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 8 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 9 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 10 | After that she said nothing for a while , only sat watching me in a broody way . |
| 11 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 12 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |