Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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1 | Connie Fraser was n't really any of my business , but I 'd liked the way she was taking this whole bit . |
2 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
3 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
4 | Unlike Pushkin 's improvisatore , for whom there was ‘ no toil , no dearth , nor that unrest which is the prelude to inspiration ’ , I had to prepare the way . |
5 | 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 . |
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 moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
8 | But I 've seen a way to get a message out . |
9 | ‘ I 've seen the way he gives confidence to the sick , in spite of his youth . |
10 | " I 've seen the way she treats you , sir … like a child , " Jane blurted out . |
11 | I 've seen the way Louise looks at you , and Roger and Amy obviously approve . |
12 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
13 | ‘ I 've seen the way she looks at you ! |
14 | I 've seen the way he looks at you , Virgie ! |
15 | ‘ Buster 's one of my heroes , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've admired the way he and other old-timers used to do their own stunts . |
16 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
17 | If he 's really cornered , he might think well I 've got to fight , I 've got no way round it . |
18 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
19 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
20 | ‘ I have employed every way I know , ’ said Bowet wearily , ‘ to procure money for his Grace 's needs . |
21 | I have left the way clear for anyone to take over as chairman . |
22 | I have tried every way I wrote let a letter hoping somebody would actually come and ask me what was wrong . |
23 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
24 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | He gave as an example some of the early work in genetics which has paved the way for biotechnological developments . |
27 | On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . |
28 | Time and again it has been our union which has led the way on issues of health and safety whilst other unions have merely followed . |
29 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
30 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |