Example sentences of "in [adj] way he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he acquired an unusually wide experience of railway engineering and management under difficult conditions . |
| 2 | In this way he looked like defending it , though it would have taken only seconds to turn their guns in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | In this way he determined the extent of royal demesne lands and woods within the forest , and revoked encroachment made upon them . |
| 4 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 5 | In this way he knew where he was . |
| 6 | It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself . |
| 7 | In this way he found 38 flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 8 | Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something . |
| 9 | In some way he had offended her . |
| 10 | He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon . |
| 11 | When Picasso painted the Demoiselles d'Avignon , those of his friends who were allowed to see it seem to have felt that in some way he had let them down . |
| 12 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 13 | Hope saw himself , the ascetic , the missionary , the preacher , the proud foe of great kings , the saint of God , the healer , the miracle worker , the chastiser of his own flesh : and in some way he felt himself shriven . |
| 14 | Was it because in some way he blamed Francis for his mother 's death — or was the reason less dramatic ? |
| 15 | In some way he appeared to hearten the French , many of whom were disoriented and depressed by the appalling events , by his insouciance . |
| 16 | Nevertheless on such occasions he gave the impression to friends and acquaintances that in some ways he had mellowed . |
| 17 | In many ways he had a great influence on me . |
| 18 | In many ways he understood the Burman , and his relationship with the pre-war leader of the Executive Council , U Saw , was a close one . |
| 19 | If in one way he seemed much more human , more normally fallible , than before , that was tainted by what seemed like a lack of virginity in the telling . |
| 20 | Boniface wrote to Ecgberht , archbishop of York , authorizing him to amend the letter in any way he thought desirable , and to Herefrith , a priest , who was to make known Boniface 's views to Aethelbald by reading the letter to him and explaining it — Herefrith being one to whom Aethelbald was prepared to listen . |
| 21 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 22 | It would be up to God to wind up the clockwork and set the universe going in any way He wanted . |
| 23 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 24 | In other ways he proved far from ideal . |