Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 2 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 5 | Characteristically it was Smith 's perfectionism that made him delay publishing the full proofs until he had found a way of checking his answers . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |