Example sentences of "[pron] had [art] way " in BNC.
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1 | He did all the right things and so I had a way out . |
2 | I had no way of checking it and am grateful , therefore , that Sir Gordon Cox has provided the full version . |
3 | I had no way of telling what time it was , but surely it might soon be possible for me to escape from my desert island and make my way back to the cottage and a warm bed . |
4 | I crawled out into the alley and it was one of those blind alleys , y'know , blocked off at one end , so I had no way out . |
5 | ‘ She 's mending now , Miss Mulliver , but she was real poorly … cried out for you , she did , but I had no way of knowing how to contact you . ’ |
6 | I had no way to deal with thirst , heat , dist and all the other miseries afflicting me . |
7 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
8 | It was like an itch , something I had no way of resisting , like when I walk along a pavement in Porteneil and I accidentally scuff one heel on a paving stone . |
9 | Yet they had in common healthy self-esteem and the need to form passionate personal relationships , some of which had a way of overlapping . |
10 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
11 | And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be . |
12 | She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back . |
13 | She had a way of never doubting other people or herself , it was headstrong , he says , and naive and infuriating , but it was also touching and one let her have her way . |
14 | She looked so slim and young in that cream shawl above her blue taffeta gown , with the pretty frilled bonnet over her gleaming hair ; she had a way of walking , thought the watching girl , with just a little envy … so easy and graceful , even though she was with child . |
15 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
16 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
17 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
18 | But she had no way of signalling to Keith , and she saw him frown ominously . |
19 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
20 | She had enough nursing experience to know that Celia would recover physically , but she had no way of judging how much harm the episode might have done her mentally . |
21 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
22 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
23 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
24 | Without any information as to the nature of the chemical that had poisoned her system she had no way of telling if she would come out alive at the other end of the process . |
25 | She had no way of telling how deep it was , but it was narrow enough to support her easily if she slipped or lost her hold . |
26 | The grief and horror she would have expected to experience were somehow blunted and held at bay , though whether permanently or not she had no way of knowing . |
27 | And she had no way of knowing how hungrily her eyes had fastened upon his fur . |
28 | He had n't looked the scruffy type , but she had no way of telling what his idea of dinner might be . |
29 | Occasionally he asked for her opinion but showed no particular reaction when she gave it , so that she had no way of knowing if he was completely satisfied with her grasp of the work . |
30 | ‘ Oh , do n't be boring , Robyn ! ’ he mumbled , and then , before she could get up , do anything , he was pushing all his weight against her , pressing her back against the bed , half lying across her , holding her wrists so that she had no way of fighting him off . |