Example sentences of "in some [adj] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A part of her did n't want to ; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris . |
| 3 | In his face there was a hard , uncompromising certainty about things ; in some strange way it reminded Lehmann of Berdichev . |
| 4 | In some strange way it helped to even the score over Elise . |
| 5 | This feeling was quite different ; in some strange way it seemed to reach into her very soul . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For he thinks it is scientifically debatable , ambiguous and controversial , and yet it is convincing , because ‘ in some puzzling way it is true ’ . |