Example sentences of "[vb pp] a way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got a way with Jacko , Andy . |
| 6 | Then , aside to me , she said : ‘ She 's got a way with policemen , ’ as if confiding some dark secret . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | They 've got a way of measuring wear on er stretchers |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he had not yet mastered a way of putting it into words . |
| 14 | Well , he has always had a way with words . |
| 15 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 16 | ENGINEERS in the US have developed a way of cramming two television programmes into a single cable channel . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 21 | German scientists have developed a way of using carbon dioxide rather than water as a medium for dyeing materials . |
| 22 | Researchers at the National Grid Company 's technology and science division have developed a way of destroying the PCBs while the transformer remains in operation . |
| 23 | A Tewkesbury firm has developed a way of engraving both the customer 's photo and signature onto the card . |
| 24 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 25 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
| 26 | However , the shame is that for some health service insiders it has become a way of life . |
| 27 | It has become a way of life for you . |
| 28 | ‘ It has become a way of life for me here — but it must be unsettling to the players . |
| 29 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |