Example sentences of "way he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns .
2	He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance .
3	That way he got it all .
4	No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality .
5	I liked the way he used his entire body .
6	The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier .
7	The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it .
8	The way he proffers his open hand before this difficult feat of balance draws attention to the vital part to be played by all heroes in classical ballet .
9	He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain .
10	On the way he maintained his cold silence and they were both aware of Ana and Mitch who talked endlessly .
11	In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’
12	This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities .
13	It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time .
14	In a way he liked his safe , comfortable lifestyle .
15	The sky was the way he liked it best and thought best suited to the terrain it overcast , piled with cloud in pillars and columns and towers and ramparts , so that in places the vapour seemed not insubstantial but composed of solid masonry .

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