Example sentences of "he [verb] 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 | He has a way of speaking that seems to turn them all into engines , which , in terms of simple physics , is what they are . |
| 8 | He has a way of drawing you into his enterprises , which is flattering . ) |
| 9 | He has a way of standing with his hands by his side or behind his back , as if he does n't know what on earth to do with them . |
| 10 | ‘ But then , ’ she added , ‘ he has a way of finding the right words — when he 's sure of his ground , I mean . |
| 11 | He has a way to go . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He finds a way of talking about England , about right , about courage as a sort of secular sainthood , and it is his words , acting on his army , that bring France down . |
| 16 | With no hands either , Steg ca n't seize the grubs in the conventional way , but being a resourceful sort of chap he finds a way to catch 'em . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And for the interpretation stage , he defines a way of computing the shape and motion of a rigid object from three views of it , making his system assume that if such a computation succeeds then it is indeed faced with a rigid body in motion ( as opposed to two different objects or one object changing its shape ) . |
| 23 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom . |
| 30 | He had a way with words , my master . |