Example sentences of "[pron] had [art] [adj] way " in BNC.
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1 | Jess took a step backwards , muttering under her breath : ‘ God protect me and forgive me sins I did n't meant no wrong … ’ without believing in much except bruises , hunger and Fate which had a nasty way of turning the tables against her , but willing at the same time to try anything once . |
2 | She had a long way , still , to go . |
3 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
4 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
5 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
6 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
7 | the man who had the yellow ways |
8 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
9 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
10 | Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike . |
11 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
12 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
13 | They had a long way to go . |
14 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
15 | A taciturn man , he had no other way of expressing his hatred and contempt for the man who had brought disgrace to the family and ruin to his beloved Carewscourt . |
16 | This means that when Engels postulated a pre-class stage when there were no conflicting principles and everything was sweetness and light , he had no Marxist way by which to explain historical change . |
17 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
18 | mind he had a Milky Way bar and then afterward he had a mini Milk |
19 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
20 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
21 | He had a peculiar way of dismounting — instead of putting his right leg over the saddle in the usual fashion , he used to put his left leg on a step protruding from the rear spindle , stand on this and gently place his right leg to the ground . |
22 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
23 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |
24 | He had a funny way of talking , Kate thought . |
25 | He had an uncanny way of making me feel simple . |
26 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |