Example sentences of "had [verb] a 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 | Bennett had been doorman at the Garrick Club for twenty-three years and had developed a way with unpleasantness . |
| 3 | He had developed a way to make things work efficiently , a system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Perhaps that foul seductress had developed a way of doing it absolutely noiselessly , and without movement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 8 | Baxter had to find a way to stop the piglets getting out to bully their mother and steal milk from others with younger litters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had to find a way of drawing Nadirpur out . |
| 11 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had to find a way to escape him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 21 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 22 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 23 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 24 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 25 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 26 | Jazz had become a way of life for her . |
| 27 | Within this context he also criticized families for whom welfare assistance had become a way of life . |
| 28 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 29 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 30 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |