Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were looking for a precise way to express what we mean when we refer to something as complicated . |
| 2 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 3 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 4 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 5 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 6 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 7 | ‘ Two hundred slaves and we made no profit ? ’ the Doctor was saying in a jovial way that seemed out of place . |
| 8 | Creggan was staring in a hostile way at this invasion of his territory but feeling too lazy to bother much about it when to his astonishment he heard a familiar and unpleasant voice say something unfamiliar and very strange indeed . |
| 9 | In between these first ventures into showbusiness , the young hopeful was performing in a different way for audiences on the streets of South London , where he gained a reputation as the ‘ best egg-seller in Brixton ’ . |
| 10 | The golden eagles were sheltering , the buzzard was tucked away out of sight , and the fish eagle was pecking in a half-hearted way at his food on the floor of the shelter . |
| 11 | In other words , the subconscious was working in an expanding way , trying to think of anything that might have been overlooked . |
| 12 | Oh yes yes er I should say that er Street er Street then you get into Palfrey now you see Palfrey was a little bit less due to the fact that there were a hell of a lot of railway men at work down there , I mean really all belonging to some department on the railway , you get er drivers and all the men and the permanent way of being in Street I mean a lot of people from Palfrey lived down lived in Palfrey was working in the permanent way in Street , so it was a really , Palfrey you could say was a railway community . |