Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] way " in BNC.

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1	I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was .
2	Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it .
3	It had to be soon , it had to be quick , and so far he had seen no way of achieving it .
4	He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice .
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	He had had no way of knowing whether this was the truth , but the pattern of spurious intimacy had been established .
8	He had to admire the way she read .
9	He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him .
10	So far he had found no way to resolve the conundrum facing him .
11	Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers .
12	‘ 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 .
13	Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule .
14	By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed .
15	The fundamentally cautious Mehemet Ali decided to withdraw from Asia Minor and content himself with Syria , but Nicholas realized that , to prevent a recurrence of the crisis , he had to find a way of institutionalizing his short-term assistance to the Ottomans .

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