Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 6 | Unlike that gentle man she was neither shocked nor surprised because she had seen the way Tom Reynolds silently lusted after his employer 's wife ; she knew also that Esther was no better . |
| 7 | Travis turned away , but not before she had seen the way his face closed up . |
| 8 | The porter called her madam because she had asked the way to the private wing . |
| 9 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 10 | He frowned slightly and suddenly she longed to say something , to try and explain why she had acted the way she had . |
| 11 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 12 | When you stood in the Jungle , the house seemed dimensions away , as if , in order to get back indoors , you had to alter the way your mind worked , you had to think your way back in . |
| 13 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 14 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 15 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 16 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 17 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 18 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 21 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 22 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 23 | Perhaps it had happened the way Donna said . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 25 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 26 | It had to be soon , it had to be quick , and so far he had seen no way of achieving it . |
| 27 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 30 | He had had no way of knowing whether this was the truth , but the pattern of spurious intimacy had been established . |