Example sentences of "that in some [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
| 3 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |