Example sentences of "[noun] had a 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 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 4 | Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating . |
| 8 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Somehow , it seemed to Gedanken , her uncle had a way of making everything fun . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even wars had a way of making William 's grandad redundant . |
| 15 | Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards . |
| 16 | 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 . |