Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 2 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |
| 3 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 4 | Where Elizabeth failed to find a way of reinventing the monarchy , Charles , a child of the television age , succeeded . |
| 5 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 6 | Finally , Ghatak tried to find a way between popular melodrama and the avant-garde . |
| 7 | Baldi , who had been watching the show , now tried to find a way around the Jaguar for himself . |
| 8 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 9 | This was a reward for persistence , as the United strike force tried to find a way through . |
| 10 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 11 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 12 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 13 | However , in 1985 , a fortuitous observation made in the Harvard laboratory of the distinguished geneticist and Nobel Laureate , Phil Leder , seemed to offer a way of identifying one of the genes . |
| 14 | Monitoring of this sort seemed to offer a way forward . |
| 15 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 16 | Bits of it actually sound accidental , but that only adds to the shocking brilliance of a record that allowed rock a way into the previously terrifying world of dance , and that showed dance a way forward too . |
| 17 | In houses built from local materials , furnished in traditional ways by country craftsmen , the imagination sought to rediscover a way of life in harmony with the human community that produced it : ‘ In these English farms , if anywhere , ’ E. M. Forster writes in Howards End ( 1910 ) , ‘ one might see life steadily and see it whole … connect without bitterness until all men are brothers . |
| 18 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 19 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 20 | ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’ |
| 21 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 22 | But it needed a penalty from the Republic of Ireland international to settle the issue as Villa struggled to find a way through . |
| 23 | ‘ In part , I think it was that Brian Eyre and I managed to establish a way of working together so that the potential for internal conflict was minimised . |
| 24 | A serious incident was averted , however — although one ‘ threatening individual ’ was detained — and officials managed to clear a way through . |
| 25 | He also put in much of his own time and appeared to have a way of solving most problems . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the family did cushion the blow of job loss for some women and their domestic role did offer a way of making sense of their experience . |
| 27 | But the Government did find a way of accepting a link between the riots and social problems without bringing its main policies into the debate : namely by linking the growth of violent disorder to crime and drugs . |
| 28 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 29 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 30 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |