Example sentences of "in what [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really sorry you could n't move in there tonight , but as usual everything here is delivered in what they charmingly refer to as Eastern Caribbean time — which means late ! ’ |
| 2 | It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion . |
| 3 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 4 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 5 | Robert , a man in his late twenties with a long history of occult involvement , grew up in what he now knows to be one of the most haunted farmhouses in Lancashire on the Fylde coast . |