Example sentences of "[noun] had [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her . |
| 2 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 3 | Ken , of course , was n't ill , but the management had no way of knowing . |
| 4 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 5 | Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on . |
| 6 | It was strange how Hank had a way of withdrawing from one 's company at times , just as if he had forgotten one was there . |
| 7 | Important factors were : Farmers had no way of knowing or discovering that the seed was defective . |
| 8 | This was no doubt because Read had a way of writing about Abstract Art in his own highly abstract manner , so that abstraction was further compounded . |
| 9 | Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating . |
| 10 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 11 | His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly . |
| 12 | Thus , an observation would be relatively uncontrolled if the observer had no way of manipulating a social situation for the purposes of the enquiry . |
| 13 | Whether he was there or some other place Dowd had no way of fetching him back . |
| 14 | Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into . |
| 15 | But Mr Blunkett said patients had no way of knowing why some consultants had longer queues for treatment . |
| 16 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 17 | Somehow , it seemed to Gedanken , her uncle had a way of making everything fun . |
| 18 | Lee privately doubted that the majority of these contacts would be useful : favours had a way of being conveniently forgotten , and vices and indiscretions tended to lose their edge as the years passed . |
| 19 | Even wars had a way of making William 's grandad redundant . |
| 20 | Those who invoked this factor to explain the colour on the outside of a snail 's shell had no way of explaining differences on the inside . |
| 21 | Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards . |
| 22 | There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible . |
| 23 | Vologsky had no way to back out now . |
| 24 | Silly really , because her family had no way of knowing that she still covered her head . |
| 25 | The roof of the workplace began to fall and John had no way through . |