Example sentences of "[conj] in some [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 2 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 3 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
| 4 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 5 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 6 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
| 7 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 8 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 9 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 10 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 11 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 12 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |