Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you a Bible story meself In me own way . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm goin' to look at the story first and then tells it in me own way , like what I done with Noah . |
| 3 | IT MUST be a plot , for here is another effect that I am asked to inquire about in my ignorant way . |
| 4 | In my small way I felt that a little daylight was filtering through . |
| 5 | ‘ When I think , ’ he said happily , ‘ that I , Pumblechook , was able to help in my small way , by taking you to play at Miss — ’ |
| 6 | But this was the thing with being an outsider — even in my small way . |
| 7 | In my small way , because I felt that the whole business had been handled most unsatisfactorily by Baldwin and exploited by others , including the Archbishop of Canterbury , I plunged into the resulting controversy . |
| 8 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 9 | Nobody in his right mind would try to fill a bath with a hole in it and so , I reasoned in my simple way , let the poor soul get on with it and let's all have a bit of peace . |
| 10 | I sympathize because in my little way I grieve too , but over the people in my life I have allowed to die without ever having shown them any particular affection . |
| 11 | He gestured round the room expansively : ‘ I 'm cashing in too , in my little way . |
| 12 | In my hard way . |
| 13 | but , it 's unfair saying that I erm , I , continue in my inefficient way if you 're all willing to put up with me . |
| 14 | The point which has struck me most ( in my myopic way ) has been the abrupt disappearance at this level , all over the world , of the atrypid brachiopods . |
| 15 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 16 | In my own way . ’ |
| 17 | This does n't mean that I have slopped believing , but only that I believe in my own way . |
| 18 | You see , I love my wife in my own way , but we lead our own lives … |
| 19 | All I can do is feel what I 'm feeling , and translate it in my own way . ’ |
| 20 | I have in my own way tried to point out that , of the world 's leading rugby nations , the game in south Africa has suffered badly not only as a result of its years of isolation — as many of those who have just visited the country during the New Zealand and Australian tours believe — but precisely because our officials have for a very long time been at the forefront of the trend towards professionalism . |
| 21 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 22 | I developed in my own way , free from the pressures of fashion . |
| 23 | In general , I attempted to capture the dramatic energy of this marvellous score and to re-create that drama in my own way . |
| 24 | But what I think of them I must say in my own way . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll be working in my own way — the same sort of thing , but what I see as rather more — serious . " |
| 26 | Worthless kind of chap , in my own way . |
| 27 | Not that I will paint in my own way , live in my own way , speak in my own way — they do n't mind that . |
| 28 | Not that I will paint in my own way , live in my own way , speak in my own way — they do n't mind that . |
| 29 | Not that I will paint in my own way , live in my own way , speak in my own way — they do n't mind that . |
| 30 | ‘ I loved him in my own way . |