Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 7 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |