Example sentences of "[prep] a way that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She could feel the hard muscles of his body pressing against her side , his arm sheltering her in a way that made her trust him . |
| 32 | Fran tried to step past him , but he just stood where he was , making no attempt to get out of her way while he continued to study her in a way that made her suddenly self-conscious . |
| 33 | Just for a second she met his curious gaze then looked away , feeling her heart pounding in a way that made her feel sick . |
| 34 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 35 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 36 | He had a think , and blew his nose , noticing after a moment that her mind was fixed on his words in a way that made him feel quite light . |
| 37 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 38 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 39 | Luke 's eyes licked over her in a way that made his answer perfectly clear . |
| 40 | The new literacy arising from compulsory elementary education meant that boys could read about a sport which was organized in a way that made it difficult to watch regularly . |
| 41 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 42 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
| 43 | She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own . |
| 44 | He smiled slowly down at her , his gaze centring on her mouth in a way that made it start to throb . |
| 45 | ‘ Barbarians stole the statues , ’ Nicolo repeated in a way that made it clear he would accept no argument . |
| 46 | Analysts said the statement was phrased in a way that made it difficult to confirm or refute . |
| 47 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 48 | They should be displayed in a way that enables them to be appreciated by all the children in the class , whatever their visual capabilities . |
| 49 | Pipework and cable have to be laid and , if you deploy central heating pumps , they need to be housed in a way that enables them to be accessible , yet invisible . |
| 50 | The fire-bellied toad normally prefers to remain hidden and its back is patterned and coloured in a way that enables it to do so by blending in with its surroundings . |
| 51 | Instead of repeating all that has been said and written before , we will therefore discuss these matters in a way that enables you to use your common-sense judgement and understand why you decide to do something . |
| 52 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 53 | How could she get through an evening in his company when everything that was female in her responded to him in a way that knocked her totally off balance ? |
| 54 | The hall was neat and tidy , but it was bare in a way that betrayed its nature as common property . |
| 55 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 56 | As the host of an all-night radio show , Shepard would commune with his insomniac listeners in a way that assured them that they , the ‘ night people ’ , were the ones really in tune with life . |
| 57 | I shall argue that a political society that accepts integrity as a political virtue thereby becomes a special form of community , special in a way that promotes its moral authority to assume and deploy a monopoly of coercive force . |
| 58 | He was in the courtyard , unfastening a pair of skis , his jet-black ski-suit moulding itself to his body in a way that drew her glance whether she liked it or not . |
| 59 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |
| 60 | Even if subjects are deliberately attempting to recall the risky situations it would still be interesting that they are able to do so in a way that makes them distinct from all the other situations encountered . |