Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now we 're back to six people again and they 're all working for me in a very small way .
2 I soon developed their reflexive habit of checking behind whenever someone walked towards me in a fairly empty street .
3 Last night I remember a young man running past me with a very animated ‘ Buenas tardes ’ .
4 Yet I think that at the subconscious and half-conscious levels he was a heavy weight upon me of a perhaps oppressive or repressive kind .
5 Er so I , it was really instilled in me from a very early age .
6 It 's funny 'cos , I mean , the T V news actually provides that function in this country , I think , of the middle ground , whereas it seems to me on a very limited sort of reading that the T V news erm provides a different sort of service in the States .
7 John Heminges said to me in a very quiet voice .
8 ‘ My youngest daughter once spoke to me in a totally different voice .
9 Early after the press conference Fleischmann and Pons advertised the explosion of their palladium block as prima facie evidence for fusion , but a year later Martin Fleischmann presented it to me in a more detached way .
10 ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’
11 Then Lorne gazed at me for a very long time , in ripe candour .
12 Lorne gazed at me for a very long time again .
13 He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence .
14 ‘ I think if I did that would make them look at me in a completely different way . ’
15 I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it .
16 Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way !
17 He noticed me in the audience , and kept looking at me in a very strange way .
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