Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 2 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 3 | He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age . |
| 4 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 5 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 6 | ‘ And they supported you in the same way ? ’ she asked gently . |
| 7 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |
| 10 | " But Comrade Alice , " he reproved her in the gentlest way , " it is important . |
| 11 | The Royal Commission explained it in the following way : |