Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 2 | Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them . |
| 3 | In a curious way he would miss Tibbles . |
| 4 | In a curious way he seemed more formidable than before . |
| 5 | In a curious way you can understand what is being said only by letting your mind slip into the same fuzzy state Shepherd 's must have been in when he spoke . |
| 6 | You 'll probably laugh , but , well , we thought we could help each other to be good — in a spiritual way I mean . |
| 7 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 8 | The deep sea-blue eyes were unreadable , yet in a strange way she felt pinned to the spot by them , like a butterfly trapped and doomed to die . |
| 9 | In a strange way she was n't even surprised . |
| 10 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |
| 11 | She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered . |
| 12 | In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name . |
| 13 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
| 14 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 15 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 16 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
| 17 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |
| 18 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 19 | In a similar way it was the growing wealth of the planters which first drew English manufactures to the American colonies . |
| 20 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 21 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 22 | ‘ By encouraging people to manage in a certain way you make it seem more appropriate to appoint women . ’ |
| 23 | That is why if Jill knowingly leads Jim to expect that she will behave in a certain way she bears a responsibility to prevent harm to Jim as a result of this reliance , and so on . |
| 24 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 25 | There is clearly — indeed there would have to be — more to Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life than the sources record , and while in a general way it is unquestionably right to urge caution in adopting Husameddin 's material , in this particular case there appears to be evidence which at the least requires an alternative explanation before being dismissed . |
| 26 | ‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small . |
| 27 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 28 | Used in a limited way they are very effective . |
| 29 | In a major way we found people who simply have n't enough to eat . |
| 30 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |