Example sentences of "way that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hall was neat and tidy , but it was bare in a way that betrayed its nature as common property . |
| 32 | When you see her being bossy , you can intervene in a way that lets her see that the other children need a chance to say what they want to do . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Then Damian 's blue eyes flicked over her body in a hot way that sent her heart racing and her legs trembling . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 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 | He curled his arm round Claudia 's waist , smiling at the receptionist in a way that made her assure him she would keep his secret . |
| 40 | Instantly , she was filled with the need to protect herself from the hopelessly vulnerable way that made her feel . |
| 41 | Marc was still gripping her wrist in a way that made her feel like melting against him . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Just for a second she met his curious gaze then looked away , feeling her heart pounding in a way that made her feel sick . |
| 45 | He cuddled her and felt the bump in a way that made her uneasy as to the propriety of it and asked constantly how this baby was to climb out . |
| 46 | Francis was trying to divide his attention between the little moving pictures and the Doctor 's argument with the dreadful Lacuna woman , but he had seen the blond girl smile in a way that made her face look almost unattractive , and he had heard her whisper savagely . |
| 47 | He smiled again , in a way that made her heart turn over . |
| 48 | He had played his part so well throughout the day , holding her hand as they had strolled along the beach , looking into her eyes in that way that made her bones melt . |
| 49 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 50 | She flicked him a perfunctory smile , seeing the mockery lingering in his dark eyes in a way that made her itch to reach out and slap him . |
| 51 | He glanced down at her , his dark eyes crinkling at the corners as he smiled in a way that made her heart turn a tiny somersault . |
| 52 | Not liking the way that made her sound , she was about to object . |
| 53 | He smiled in a way that made her heart stop beating . |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | At that time , the physics course at Oxford was arranged in a way that made it particularly easy to avoid work . |
| 59 | She said please in a way that made it a special request of her own . |
| 60 | He smiled slowly down at her , his gaze centring on her mouth in a way that made it start to throb . |