Example sentences of "[pron] had a way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they had in common healthy self-esteem and the need to form passionate personal relationships , some of which had a way of overlapping . |
| 2 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 9 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 10 | Even in his boyhood days , Tommy Courtney was the charmer who had a way with the girls . |
| 11 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 12 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 13 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
| 14 | He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased . |
| 15 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
| 16 | She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy . |
| 17 | He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom . |
| 18 | He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage . |
| 19 | He had a way of dealing with objections which , even if he did n't face them , made it appear absolutely ridiculous to maintain the opposite position . |
| 20 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 21 | He had a way with words , my master . |