Example sentences of "it was [adj] way [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 2 | It was one way of getting down , he supposed . |
| 3 | It was one way of getting money . |
| 4 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 5 | It was one way of having her say . |
| 6 | I suppose it was one way of ensuring that staff returned to the fold , but I 'm not so sure that it was a good idea as far as the staff was concerned . |
| 7 | True , it was one way of keeping Dana from London and a meeting with Berenice , but why go to such lengths ? |
| 8 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 9 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 10 | It was another way of saying there would be no condemnations . |
| 11 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |