Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 2 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 3 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 4 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 5 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 6 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 7 | What attracted me to this way of speaking is that it would seem to allow for a celebration of the diversity of human beings , this held together with an emphasis on the commonness of their humanity . |
| 8 | It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation . |
| 9 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't remember what I actually said , but obviously Mandy misinterpreted it in some way . |
| 11 | He humiliated me in other ways too . |
| 12 | Rod Hale and Grant Parrott both sustained injuries which incapacitated them in various ways . |
| 13 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 14 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 15 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 16 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 17 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 18 | Her imagination , which often inconvenienced her in this way , began to suggest that , naturally , this remote valley would be the haunt of rabid , starving packs of feral dogs . |
| 19 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 20 | He was born around the Darlington area and I heard that his family once had money , but lost it in some way . |
| 21 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 22 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 24 | Well what do you know what brought her over this way at all ? |
| 25 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 26 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 27 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 28 | Else he 'd of took it from that way . |
| 29 | Such courses , especially those for women only , increased women 's confidence and introduced them to new ways of interpreting their experience . |
| 30 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |