Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in a different " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 2 | The reassuring love she had expected from the house she found in a different measure from the three little dogs , friendly , even worshipful , and proffering no accusations of her neglectful absence — their care and pleasures important to her , she leaned against the car and waited while they took to the woods and the wild . |
| 3 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 4 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 5 | What 's the matter ? ’ he asked in a different tone . |
| 6 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 7 | Not that it did n't work the way we did it , but it worked in a different way . ’ |
| 8 | To render the applicability of natural justice dependent upon a prior classification of the above type would have its utility in greater certainty and predictability : if a case fell within one category certain results would follow ; if it fell in a different category differing results would ensue . |
| 9 | To Beaverbrook , however , he appeared in a different light . |
| 10 | ‘ I was at Sidney , ’ he said in a different voice . |
| 11 | Furthermore , even if the person warned did not repeat the conduct about which he had been warned , he could be arrested if he engaged in a different act or course of offensive conduct . |