Example sentences of "[noun prp] had a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 2 | Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |