Example sentences of "way he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I find it hard to believe , because first of all you have to understand the word ‘ intelligent ’ in the way he meant it and I 'm not sure that I know what he meant ; and there are any number of ways of being intelligent . |
| 3 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 4 | I could n't see properly in that light , but by the way he kept his head turned away , I could tell he was blushing . |
| 5 | In imputing this degree of credulity to people who live far away in foreign cultures , is the anthropologist liable to be careless in the way he asks his questions ? |
| 6 | The man might be something of a bounder , dispatching young Geoffrey every afternoon to that bookie in the Nelson Arms , not to mention the way he tapped his cigarettes on his thumbnail , but he was , after all , a favourite of Rose Lipman . |
| 7 | ‘ I liked the way he composed his pictures , like those continual shots of long , depressing concrete vistas . ’ |
| 8 | I love the way he calls his grandfather granddad . |
| 9 | His greatest quality is the way he motivates his team . |
| 10 | ‘ Guy seems to change his women the way he changes his socks , ’ Virginia muttered acidly , her heart aching . |
| 11 | Even the way he hung his hat was expansive , drawing the whole room in . |
| 12 | But there are some thing she ca n't change , like the way he shoves his hand into his pocket , his preference for classical music to Dire Straits , and looking at buildings rather than eyeing up the latest cat-walk creations |
| 13 | There is no way I had anything going with poor Billy and no way he knew I 'd be in that house . ’ |
| 14 | Once in the bed , they fell on each other , doing it sideways , Harold bending over to get her nipples teased between his teeth , while he placed a middle finger over her anus in the way he knew she enjoyed . |
| 15 | It made good copy and helped with the film 's publicity ; they also gave an insight into what others thought of Nicholson and the way he saw himself , then . |
| 16 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 17 | If he had the chance he picked her up in his sturdy little arms and kissed her downy head the way he saw his father do when he thought no one was looking . |
| 18 | The way he saw it , the players never wanted Yeugh and were majorly responsible . |
| 19 | ‘ He did have some really good stories , ’ said Ann , ‘ and the way he told them — well , he was fun , and we both liked him . |
| 20 | The way he told it , you were a hell of a man . ’ |
| 21 | The way he told it , it took maybe five minutes . |
| 22 | Maybe something about the way he told it , as if he believed it … maybe the disappearances … or the storm … ’ |
| 23 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 24 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 25 | Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns . |
| 26 | And the pathetic way he expressed himself . |
| 27 | The way he expressed it , quaint to us today , nevertheless neatly points up the dilemma : If one government has a right to require that children be religiously educated , so has another , so have all ( whether … in Constantinople Islamism , or Pekin Confucionism … ) . |
| 28 | Never feed the puppy before the family — this way he understands he is last in the pecking order . |
| 29 | I could tell what he was thinking from the way he questioned me . |
| 30 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |