Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 2 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 5 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 6 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 7 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 10 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 11 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 12 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 13 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 14 | Davy had found a way to burn a candle in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 15 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 16 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 17 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
| 18 | I half-hoped , half-dreaded the mast would go up in sparks and a bang when the Big Man pulled the lever ; that FAKINTIL had found a way to wrap half a dozen shearing charges around the legs . |
| 19 | ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her . |
| 20 | Both the bolt and the lock were now broken beyond repair where the makeshift battering ram had forced a way in . |
| 21 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 22 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 23 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |