Example sentences of "[art] way that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mill sets about resolving the situation in a way that causes him to become embroiled in a world of sex , violence and corruption . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 7 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 8 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |