Example sentences of "a way i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't attend the dinner , for which in a way I 'm now sorry , and Pound never forgot or forgave . |
| 2 | ‘ I was free and in a way I was happy . ’ |
| 3 | In a way I was preparing myself , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Eventually , the song becomes a real-time simulation of a locked groove , an out-of-control roller-coaster of dread but also of resilience : ‘ And the Mercy Seat is waiting/And I think my head is burning/And in a way I 'm yearning/To be done with all this measuring of proof/An eye for an eye/And a tooth for a tooth/And anyway I told the truth/And I 'm not afraid to die . ’ |
| 5 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 6 | I was astonished , and a little dismayed , by the ease with which Dana entered into the spirit of things , giving Indian war-whoops and clowning and laughing in a way I thought was rather contemptible . |
| 7 | She sang Schubert 's song Erlkonig in a way I can still recall . |
| 8 | Or is it because in a way I share their disapproval ? |
| 9 | So in a way I was the messenger ? ’ |
| 10 | I was just glad in a way I was dressing the Prime Minister and not Mrs Lawson . |
| 11 | But in a way I think this may be a defence mechanism . |
| 12 | Spray was spuming up wildly from my rails in a way I had never seen before . |
| 13 | In a way I wish you had pursued it . ’ |
| 14 | They had spoken as if I were n't there , which in a way I was n't , as other passengers were moving round me , all asking the same questions . |
| 15 | In a way I am just as much here then as I am here now . |
| 16 | My mother 's Spontaneous memories are more amenable : she can remember the trivial in a way I find exciting : ‘ The ginger-haired Dent twins running about naked in the back-alley to get dry after their bath . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies . |
| 18 | As a Methodist minister , Father was a performer of a very special sort , and in a way I guess I just swapped congregations for audiences . |
| 19 | The Monty Python star recently said : ‘ I find myself attracted to American ladies in a way I do n't to English ladies — odd , is n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | In a way I had given up . |
| 21 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 22 | But in a way I 'll be glad when he 's married ; he 'll have someone really of his own then . ’ |
| 23 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 24 | Johnny Carson in America always looks comfortable and authoritative behind a desk , and in a way I was sorry we abandoned that idea . |
| 25 | In a way I wish we had n't re-released that song because it 's not that strong . |
| 26 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 27 | But I did make it and the colour did make a difference in a way I did n't expect . |
| 28 | Is there a way I can test this ? |
| 29 | ‘ IN A WAY I OWE MY EXISTENCE to Rugby League . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , and in a way I still want to dissociate myself , even from KL . |