Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] in [det] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 2 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 3 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 4 | Once you learnt in this way it was easily recalled . |
| 5 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 6 | If these three individuals are innocent of the charge that they contributed in any way to the Holocaust , then that innocence should be revealed in a trial . |
| 7 | It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight . |
| 8 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 9 | I think he might have tried , thinking that he must fulfill this sexual desire that he had in some way . |
| 10 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 11 | My grandfather had a weak heart , and he died in this way . |
| 12 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 13 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 14 | If he acted in this way , it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time , for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu , and he deliberately and courageously broke with it . ’ |
| 15 | You did great damage to that trust in the police when you behaved in this way . ’ |