Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] some way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 2 | That seemed in some way cruel , a form of burying . |
| 3 | In the glaring light , the racket of cicadas , the events of the night seemed in some way fictional ; as if I must have been slightly drugged . |
| 4 | The the only spot colour that is is what usually aligned in some way . |
| 5 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 6 | For the whole of his life my father was preoccupied by the duty he felt in some way to bear witness to his friend and his works . |
| 7 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 8 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 9 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 10 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 11 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 12 | I think he might have tried , thinking that he must fulfill this sexual desire that he had in some way . |
| 13 | Whenever I seemed to advance towards him , my steps deviated in some way . |
| 14 | It is common for the installation instructions to ask the licensed user to make a copy of the program first and use this as the working copy , placing the original disks in a safe place in case the working disks become damaged or corrupted in some way . |
| 15 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 16 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |