Example sentences of "[vb pp] a way " in BNC.

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1 Nathan helped me to my feet and very cautiously picked a way up through the boulders and small crags towards the road .
2 So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time .
3 Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses .
4 Ear drum instead of being straight up and down like that , it 's pushed a way out ,
5 In February the clergy were outlawed ; although Winchelsey 's response was to excommunicate the violators of Clericis Laicos , Edward had already seen a way past this .
6 But I 've seen a way to get a message out .
7 Both badly needed a way out — and the agreement on limited Palestinian self-government , brokered secretly by the Norwegians , provided it .
8 So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any .
9 After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove .
10 ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas .
11 ‘ It 's got a way , way , way to go yet , ’ admits Crawford .
12 ‘ You 've got a way with Jacko , Andy .
13 At last you 've got a way out . ’
14 Then , aside to me , she said : ‘ She 's got a way with policemen , ’ as if confiding some dark secret .
15 without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access .
16 So you 've got a way of analysing behaviour and what that leads you into is the ability to manipulate the consequences of certain behaviour , okay ?
17 cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too
18 But er , like I said they 've they do work , she does work very hard with them and er but Mrs has n't got a way with her at all has she ?
19 They 've got a way of measuring wear on er stretchers
20 Well that bit if you like , but , if you like , your accent he 's after , so if you feel that you 've got a way of describing your accent , then put it down there .
21 But he had not yet mastered a way of putting it into words .
22 My Lord the plaintiff 's case , as you can appreciate , is that Mr had very clearly , on several occasions in mid October , er requested a way out of this contract there was a way out er under the terms of the contract by service of special notice to complete erm and yet he had been told that there was no way that they could withdraw from the contract .
23 Well , he has always had a way with words .
24 ‘ What 's happening is that you 're being offered a way out . ’
25 On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors .
26 ENGINEERS in the US have developed a way of cramming two television programmes into a single cable channel .
27 Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness .
28 He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system .
29 All reptile eggs contain a considerable amount of yolk in them , but many of these live-bearing reptiles have developed a way of supplementing it .
30 I find that only eggs on the outside of the mass are likely to hatch , and have developed a way of maximising the hatching rate .
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