Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [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 | I … well , I want to find a way to ensure that we have a method that will help us produce only the best and happiest of individuals , so that when the time comes for control to be applied , it can be done gainfully . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Then I try to find a way of expressing the idea and there is n't one . |
| 6 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 7 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 8 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 9 | But I 've seen a way to get a message out . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 11 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 12 | I need to find a way to persuade him . ’ |
| 13 | I have suggested a way of learning which uses the skills of both the teacher and the trained nurse in the clinical environment , working together to improve patient care . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A PRODUCT of space programme technology , which had to find a way to recycle astronauts ' air , this ‘ circle absorber ’ is designed to recycle expensive gases exhaled from patient , thus saving money and cutting down on pollution . |
| 16 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 17 | Meanwhile she has given the impression that , by looking to the earliest community of women and men , she has found a way for women to be Christian . |
| 18 | Eventually , she 'd found a way to endure her moments spent on stage . |
| 19 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She tries to find a way through and because she 's patient and understanding she gets there . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've got a way with Jacko , Andy . |
| 23 | At last you 've got a way out . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Social Security Select Committee and of the Health Select Committee , who have found a way around the difficulties of operating together and have produced a more interesting report as a result . |
| 29 | Did n't you say yourself that you intended finding a way to put an end to our arrangement ? |
| 30 | ‘ Are you telling us that you have found a way of teaching animals to talk ? ’ |