From what you tell me, he's by way of being the brains of the family..
Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.
I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree, said Matilda.
... one way of doing that would be say everybody gets ' I'll pick a number ' $25,000 ...
... meant as a criticism, by the way, of search engines, ...