Example sentences of "have a talent for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He discovers he has a talent for predicting the future , but ironically this privilege only increases his sense of the present . |
| 2 | Allen himself has admitted in the past : ‘ Mia has a talent for mothering the way some people have green fingers for gardening . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ MIA HAS a talent for mothering , the way some people have green fingers for gardening or an ear for music , ’ Woody Allen commented during recent child custody battle proceedings . |
| 4 | The initiative foundered and Lorna , who has always had a talent for design , remembered an advert she had seen for Colour Counsellors . |
| 5 | McIlvanney says that Stein , who worked as a miner until he was 27 , ‘ understood that having a talent for sport can be a matter of luck , not merit . |
| 6 | He appeared to have a talent for leaping the counter . |
| 7 | A useful sort on the level for Mark Prescott , Moving Out is with the right trainer — Henrietta Knight seems to have a talent for turning Flat horses into capable jumpers . |
| 8 | Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself . |
| 9 | Indeed , she had a talent for implying that somehow she did not belong to her own Cabinet . |
| 10 | But Georgie then pulled a master-stroke by revealing that she had a talent for automatic writing . |
| 11 | Fortunately , Charlie had a talent for cruelty . |
| 12 | In his business dealings Edouard had discovered he had a talent for the circuitous approach ; he was beginning to derive great pleasure from deploying it . |
| 13 | The self-contained flat was eventually let to Raymond Ray , a dancer who also had a talent for making costumes and produced a couple of skirts for Elinor Moynihan . |
| 14 | For some reason I had a talent for calming him down . |
| 15 | It was clear that Suragai had a talent for fieldcraft . |
| 16 | But he thought that this interest was underexploited , even though not all authors were interested in , or had a talent for , publicity . |
| 17 | Semi-literate after a cursory schooling , he had a talent for music , being proficient enough with a violin to be billed in his teens at local places of entertainment as the ‘ modern Paganini ’ . |
| 18 | Writing your own pieces can be very exciting — if you have a talent for writing — and can be more suitable to show off your personal talents . |
| 19 | But the direct quotes from disabled interviewees are vivid and richly imaginative , suggesting that the authors at least have a talent for selecting their subjects , if not for presenting their material in book form . |
| 20 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |