Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a way [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ the Doctor began , ‘ first I 've got your General Fakrid barking at me to find a way to polish off these eight twelves . |
| 2 | I confided in him and we worked at it together and I found a way to have an orgasm . |
| 3 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you have a way to get in ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 6 | whereas it looks as though , you know this chap , they found a way to make sure there 's no metal in it and now the machine it |
| 7 | The royalties go to Birthright ; let's hope they find a way to prevent tragic cot deaths . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I think that anybody who studies improvising long enough will eventually get to the point where they find a way to get all twelve notes available all the time . |
| 9 | They offer a way to substitute local wood and charcoal for expensive imported diesel and petrol . |
| 10 | After another afternoon 's fishing , he found a way to arrange a meeting with Sylvia later that night , behind the stables . |
| 11 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 12 | He has a way to go . |
| 13 | With no hands either , Steg ca n't seize the grubs in the conventional way , but being a resourceful sort of chap he finds a way to catch 'em . |
| 14 | His instinct of dishonesty came to the fore again and he thought a way to get the money would be to take the car which he was allowed to use but not to sell . ’ |