Example sentences of "he [vb past] a way " in BNC.
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1 | After we 'd sorted out his problems … he made a way for me to forget my pride … and come over to see you . |
2 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
3 | This never ceased to aggrieve the Archduke , but he found a way publicly to show his love for his wife . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | After another afternoon 's fishing , he found a way to arrange a meeting with Sylvia later that night , behind the stables . |
6 | Accepting it first as an experiment , he found a way — beyond his belief — to bring his family together . |
7 | Both underwent deep spiritual experience before they embarked on their public ministry , the Buddha in his night of illumination under the Bo tree when he discovered a way of escape for men from suffering , and the Christ in the forty days in the harsh countryside of the Dead Sea , when he was shown and accepted the way of love , sacrifice and service , as the way of salvation in the Kingdom of God . |
8 | Unlike Strachey , he discovered a way of doing this which did not involve the subordination of British socialism to the ideological hegemony of either of the emerging superpowers . |
9 | Another man escaped from a back window , cutting his hands as he smashed a way through … blood from the injury still evident on the doorstep of the neighbouring house where he raised the alarm . |
10 | 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 . ’ |
11 | So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something . |
12 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
13 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
14 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
15 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
16 | He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased . |
17 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
18 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
19 | She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy . |
20 | He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom . |
21 | He had a way with words , my master . |
22 | He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage . |
23 | He had a way of dealing with objections which , even if he did n't face them , made it appear absolutely ridiculous to maintain the opposite position . |
24 | He wanted a way out — for Nell 's sake . |