Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 3 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 4 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 5 | Madeleine , now she was in France , had developed a way of sighing , bringing her hands up to clasp the back of her neck , then breathing out explosively . |
| 6 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 7 | On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping . |
| 8 | Several precedents , particularly those established in the forum of the United Nations Organisation , had pointed the way . |
| 9 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 13 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 14 | Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters . |
| 15 | A PRODUCT of space programme technology , which had to find a way to recycle astronauts ' air , this ‘ circle absorber ’ is designed to recycle expensive gases exhaled from patient , thus saving money and cutting down on pollution . |
| 16 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 17 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |
| 18 | In some ways , therefore , France had to find a way of forcing the other five members into line behind his conception of an intergovernmental association of European states that would ultimately expand far beyond the Six , to what de Gaulle described as a Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 19 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 20 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 21 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 22 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 23 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 26 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 27 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 28 | Petrie Cranko adds that , even if Grace had prepared the way , ‘ Herbert told John , who was quite young , to telephone Manning and make the arrangements himself ’ for the lessons . |
| 29 | The tall , dark-haired girl had prepared the way for me , and I said ‘ Now let us all kneel , and cry to that same Jesus who spoke those words , ’ and down on their knees they fell every one of them , reverently , on that damp stone floor , some saying the words after me , others moaning and weeping . |
| 30 | This implies , as does its appearance in the Chronicle , that the Oxford assembly was important , and that the payment of tribute and the departure of part of Cnut 's fleet had prepared the way for an accommodation between the two sides . |