Example sentences of "in some [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 2 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 3 | A part of her did n't want to ; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris . |
| 4 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 5 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 6 | This feeling was quite different ; in some strange way it seemed to reach into her very soul . |
| 7 | In his face there was a hard , uncompromising certainty about things ; in some strange way it reminded Lehmann of Berdichev . |
| 8 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 9 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 10 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 11 | However there is no truth in the rumour that in order to utilise funds in some charitable way they purchased Pest Control London North in its entirety . |
| 12 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride . |
| 15 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |