Example sentences of "in a [noun] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frenchman spoke the final words in a tone that suggested he would find it disagreeable to discuss the subject further , and the senator lapsed into silence . |
| 2 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 3 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 4 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet Conrad uses these elements , which we may term romantic , in a way that sets him far from stories , seemingly similar , by ( say ) Rider Haggard or Buchan . |
| 8 | Mill sets about resolving the situation in a way that causes him to become embroiled in a world of sex , violence and corruption . |
| 9 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 10 | When she wanted not to reply to something , she would lift her ravishing upper lip over her opened teeth in a way that put him alarmingly in mind of a horse wanting to be bridled . |
| 11 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 12 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 13 | At the far end of the corridor , almost in front of the large window , at that moment filled with grey light and rain , my father 's figure could be seen frozen in a posture that suggested he was taking part in some ceremonial ritual . |
| 14 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 15 | Rhodri Jones , brother of Swansea 's Robert , replaces Chris Bridges at scrum-half in a move that surprised him but it is in the centres where Neath have been stretched . |
| 16 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |