Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 2 | He plays in a definite way , dropping off scrums into a defensive pocket . |
| 3 | When the number ended he clapped in a careful way , unconsciously trying.to say exactly what he felt about it . |
| 4 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 5 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 6 | If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience . |
| 7 | He grinned in a casual way , but did n't move . |
| 8 | He sniffed in a deprecating way and eyed Charles 's uniform . |
| 9 | While he went on picking up young girls , he talked in a blasé way of lust being ‘ expense of spirit in a waste of shame ’ . |
| 10 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 11 | He combined a cold approach with references to emotive issues like the Boer War , he spoke in a matter-of-fact way , he made clever use of sarcasm at the expense of opponents , and he recognized the value of a decisive attitude that would be firmly grasped by a party audience . |
| 12 | He said in a lost way , ‘ Is she ? |
| 13 | ‘ I have a right to protect my wife and family , ’ he said in a blustering way . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've met so-called intelligent people before , ’ he said in a challenging way , ‘ and I know a lot of questions that can baffle them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , thanks very much , ’ he said in a courtly way , stuffing it back into his handkerchief pocket . |
| 16 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 17 | Stern , who is known for his sometimes brash self-promotion , anchored a television documentary series in the early 1980s , in which he attempted in a Bronowski-like way to explain the ascent of architecture in America . |