Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 2 | Happier ? he said , his blue eyes fixed on my face in that mad way he sometimes has . |
| 3 | She seemed again to have lost interest , in that swift way she had , and I felt useless and bereft . |
| 4 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 5 | When teachers involved with LAMP began to allow their pupils to engage in mathematics in this broader way they found their pupils better able and more willing to question , to transfer and apply their mathematics and to sort out even quite difficult problems . |
| 6 | In this vital way we can ally our Christian faith to our democratic socialist conviction . |
| 7 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 8 | Either it must be said , in traditional terms , that , together with his human nature , he also had , in one person , a divine nature ; or in some other way he must be held to be unique . |
| 9 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 10 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 11 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 12 | A part of her did n't want to ; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris . |
| 13 | In his face there was a hard , uncompromising certainty about things ; in some strange way it reminded Lehmann of Berdichev . |
| 14 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 15 | This feeling was quite different ; in some strange way it seemed to reach into her very soul . |
| 16 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 17 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 18 | Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’ |
| 19 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 20 | And then in some subtle way I allowed myself to be dominated by you . |
| 21 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 22 | However there is no truth in the rumour that in order to utilise funds in some charitable way they purchased Pest Control London North in its entirety . |
| 23 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 24 | In some mystical way they actually are Hungarian nationhood , its authority , its manna . |
| 25 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 26 | For he thinks it is scientifically debatable , ambiguous and controversial , and yet it is convincing , because ‘ in some puzzling way it is true ’ . |
| 27 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 28 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 29 | In some peculiar way he seemed to be getting into his stride . |
| 30 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |