Example sentences of "[vb past] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 2 | Victoria gulped in her throat , drew in a long sniffing breath up her nose , then said , ‘ My mother 's face ; that was the greatest surprise of her life , I 'm sure it was . |
| 3 | To the conventions of the romantic historical novel , then , Anthony Hope added the colour of society in his day and the pattern of love and courtship which appear , in a far less interesting way , in his novels of his own London society , and he drew in a more general way from the Victorian version of medieval chivalry , with its idealisation of woman and its desire for service to an ideal . |
| 4 | A Chinese Jumbo jet crashed in an almost identical way only ten months ago . |
| 5 | The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy . |
| 6 | Her brow rose in a finely sculpted arch . |
| 7 | With her soaked blonde hair plastered in a rather mermaid-like curtain around her face and shoulders , and the wet black denim clinging tightly to her legs , she stared back , shivering in spite of the warm June night , unnerved by the piercing appraisal , but unable to prevent herself from returning the curiosity … |
| 8 | By the seventeenth century , however , engineers had become sufficiently skilled at making complex mechanical devices , powered by clockwork or water , to be able to make toys that moved in a fairly convincing approximation to the way that people and animals move . |
| 9 | When it was time for the newly-weds to say goodbye , Anna behaved in a most un-Romany manner by flinging her arms about Seb and kissing him . |
| 10 | Simon behaved in a rather superior way and did not offer Jesus the usual courtesies given to a guest . |
| 11 | Obviously he behaved in a highly suspicious manner today , but a guilty conscience can inspire one to do strange things . |
| 12 | The Labour party in its two minority governments in 1924 and 1929 — 31 , despite some minor foreign policy successes , failed to pass any much-needed radical social legislation and Ramsay Macdonald behaved in a constitutionally impeccable manner . |
| 13 | Annie paints a picture of a man who rejoiced in the power of being called ‘ My Lord ’ , who swept through his diocese in a fast car , who behaved in a more cavalier way than any English feudal landlord . |
| 14 | Later , these fears surfaced in a more public debate about the emergence of a two tier service . |
| 15 | These feminist differences surfaced in a more extreme form in the months after the passing of the act . |
| 16 | I heard the boxes were arrived from London , and on the 4th sorted the ten guinea etchings but found in a most unaccountable ( sic ) that all 13 Conistons with about as many more were pricked through with nails … . ’ |
| 17 | One of its objectives was the reform of the London College , which it pursued in a generally persuasive and constructive way . |
| 18 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 19 | He believed in a monastically orientated Church , in which monastic communities served as centres of devotion and offered the hope of Redemption to a surrounding population of benefactors , friends and well-wishers of all ranks of society . |
| 20 | Anyway , Julius seemed in a surprisingly reasonable mood this morning . |
| 21 | I know you all want to talk about that Unesco thing , ’ she added in a slightly threatening tone . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why I never seem to have any , ’ she added in a more resigned voice . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 24 | She shook her head ; then jerked it backwards , indicating the scullery , as she added in a much lower tone , ‘ They 're not really my aunt and uncle . |
| 25 | Then she added in an oddly tantalising tone , ‘ Today 's my morning at the hospital . ’ |
| 26 | Then he sidled in a conspicuously casual way back to the cave . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't want to go over all that again , ’ she muttered in a much more subdued tone . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ Lucenzo muttered in an ominously quiet voice . |
| 29 | The Doctor strolled in an apparently leisurely manner around the perimeter of the Chelonian camp . |
| 30 | It came in a rather strange form . |