Example sentences of "way of [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll work out some way of sending you the money for the return postage . |
| 2 | He had no way of knowing what the President thought . |
| 3 | Alternatively , we could use an electronically-controlled variable-speed turntable , but we have no absolute way of knowing what the correct speed is . |
| 4 | ( Falling over is God 's way of telling you the bar 's about to shut in my book . ) |
| 5 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 6 | I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it . |
| 7 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 8 | It 's the polite way of showing you the door . |
| 9 | Market research is a way of finding our the social and … climate of an area . |