Example sentences of "way he [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had the same aura of privacy that a person at prayer has , the same do-not-touch-me signal of adults that the children recognised , it was in the rigidity of the crouching figure , in the way he stared at the stream without seeing it .
2 But from the way he glanced at the girls , Chen knew what he was thinking .
3 He looked terrible and , from the way he clutched at the doorpost for support , drunk .
4 His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind .
5 I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed .
6 And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time .
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