Example sentences of "a [adj] way [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small . |
| 2 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 3 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 4 | She nodded , and in a strange way I suddenly felt outnumbered . |
| 5 | In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name . |
| 6 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |
| 7 | The deep sea-blue eyes were unreadable , yet in a strange way she felt pinned to the spot by them , like a butterfly trapped and doomed to die . |
| 8 | In a strange way she was n't even surprised . |
| 9 | In a strange way it can actually contribute to the success of many marriages , for not every woman wants to spend her life with an eternal Romeo . |
| 10 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 11 | However , now we have remade that table top and re-finished it in a different way I am much more certain about what had , until now , been an instinctive feeling . |
| 12 | He felt the mothers and the family , as in a different way he felt the hospital children , as a threat . |
| 13 | ‘ In a funny way it 's helped to give me back my sense of independence , and I do more physically than I did before . |
| 14 | In a funny way he wished that Elaine would open her eyes , but she was blind drunk and slept . |
| 15 | In a funny way I knew I was going to need treatment . |
| 16 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 17 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 18 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 19 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 20 | Used in a limited way they are very effective . |
| 21 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 22 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 23 | In a similar way we can first examine ray average costs and returns to scale along a ray . |
| 24 | In a similar way we can mock an accent or dialect , projecting a stereotyped figure more in the manner that stage actors do than in the manner that mere quotation provides … |
| 25 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 26 | In a similar way it was the growing wealth of the planters which first drew English manufactures to the American colonies . |
| 27 | And I say to myself , what a long way they 've got to go . |
| 28 | What a long way we have suddenly moved from the point argued in Chapter Five , that in dramatic playing the participant is adopting a function . |
| 29 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 30 | If the chemical diffuses a long way it is more like shouting and a larger number of cells could receive the signal . |