Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 2 | Dominating for most of the tie , Eppleton had to wait until the 47th minute before Neil Scott forced a way through a resolute Cleadon defence . |
| 3 | By analysing the thermodynamics of the process , Causton discovered a way of getting polymers to form a layer in just 3 milliseconds . |
| 4 | However , RMI offered a way of integrating the two perspectives so that the measurement of service quality and the effective control of costed inputs could finally be brought together . |
| 5 | Now Powell outlined a way of cutting the wages bill by almost £1m , through ‘ natural wastage ’ , pay freezes but also , for the first time in Virgin 's history , through redundancies . |
| 6 | Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on . |
| 7 | Sanchez walked a way off , then sat cross-legged on a piece of rough ground . |
| 8 | Jesus taught a way and called himself ‘ the Way ’ ( Jn. 14.6 ) . |
| 9 | It was strange how Hank had a way of withdrawing from one 's company at times , just as if he had forgotten one was there . |
| 10 | This was no doubt because Read had a way of writing about Abstract Art in his own highly abstract manner , so that abstraction was further compounded . |
| 11 | ‘ Rather Red than Dead ’ became its slogan , and protest marches from Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Establishment to Westminster became a way of life for many church-goers , left-wing intellectuals , pacifists and liberal moralists . |
| 12 | Eventually Vuk and Kopitar found a way to get the book published and it appeared in 1818 as a Serbian-Latin-German dictionary . |
| 13 | Maidstone offered a way : |
| 14 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 15 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 16 | Moreover , throughout the 1980s , when opposition to European Federalism became closely associated with Margaret Thatcher , enthusiasm for Europe became a way of protesting against Conservative economic liberalisation . |
| 17 | In order to cope with the demands of recording and analysing the United States ' census , Hollerith needed a way of automating the process . |
| 18 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 19 | The Ragusans represented a way of life which was completely different from that imposed upon the Balkan peoples by the Ottoman occupation , and their influence on life in the cities was of great historic significance . |
| 20 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |
| 21 | Paul suggested a way of getting rid of this passivity , arguing that lecturers should give out notes at the beginning of lectures and then : |
| 22 | Frances Hodgson Burnett found a way by describing how a father handed on his code of honour to his son . |