Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 2 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 3 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 4 | But in a book he 's written he 's had a real big pop at me in a sour way . |
| 5 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 6 | He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way . |
| 7 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 8 | ‘ Colds , catarrh and sinusitis , ’ he said , looking at me in a funny way . |
| 9 | She glanced at me in an odd way . |
| 10 | Look at them in a new way . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that some problems can be solved with ease if only we can get to look at them in a different way . |
| 12 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 13 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 14 | He bared his teeth at her in a friendly way . |
| 15 | As though humouring her , he put out his arms and held her loosely round the waist , smiling at her in a sympathetic way , as one does to an invalid . |
| 16 | He tells himself Potter is not staring at him in a racist way . |
| 17 | They glance up at Howard , looking at him in a new way . |
| 18 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 19 | Maggie looked at him in a bemused way and he smiled to himself , leading her onwards . |
| 20 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 21 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 22 | If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ? |
| 23 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |